RE: Connection to MySQL DB fails when mod_perl enabled...

[Ken Williams]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan M. Hollin) wrote:
>:: This is suspicious.  The connect() is definitely where the error is
>:: happening given what you wrote earlier.  Try making sure, change it to:
>:: 
>::         use DBI();
>::         $driver = "mysql";
>::         $dsn = "DBI:$driver:database=shapeshifter;host=localhost";
>::         $dbh = DBI->connect($dsn, dbusrname, dbpassword)
>::           or die "Error: $DBI::errstr";
>
>Done this - failed!

What does 'failed' mean?  What was the error?  That's the point, you
have to see the particular error string, starting with "Error:", to find
out what's happening.  


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