On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, What you get is Not what you see wrote:
> Freshly installed on openbsd 4.6 mysql,php and php5-mysql packages.
> Done the configs. Now php and mysql works. But I couldnt make it
> connect to mysql from within php with such a command
> mysql_connect("localhost","user","pass")
> It used to give "Cant connect to mysql through socket error" till I
> change the command to
> mysql_connect(127.0.0.1,"user","pass")
> I want to learn why?
>
Because the socket is in /var, .. and default apache chroot's to /var/www.
I believe there are tricks to make it work, but it's simpler to
just connect @127.0.0.1.
Lee
