Yes, mysqld was running.
Username and password were provided
via this function call
$db = mysql_connect("localhost","username","password");I have to same problem when trying to connect to mysql server whenever I use any user other than root. So basically whenever I try to run "mysql" using root account then everything is fine but otherwise I'll get the same error message. Thanks to your reply. "Miles Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > Is mysqld running? > Username? > Password? > > > At 08:30 PM 1/6/2002 -0500, Vu Hoang Huynh wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >I'm a newbie to PHP and mySQL and I'm currently running PHP+mySQL on my > >Linux 2.2.16 kernel. Every time I try to connect to mySQL from a php page, I > >get this error message: > > > >ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket > >'/var/lib/mysql/mys > >ql.sock' (111) > > > >What does that mean and how do I go about solving it? > > > >Thanks in advance for your directions and have a great new year. > > > >Best regards, > > > > > > > > > >-- > >PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
