Thanks a lot!
The directory had wrong permissions set. I had only looked at the
permissions on the file. Now everything works great!
Paal Arne Hoff
>
>
> you should be able to find the mysql.sock file somewhere on your machine
> (usually in /usr/local/mysql/mysql.sock), make sure the permissions are
> set as 755 for both the mysql directory and the mysql.sock file, that
> fixed a similar problem on my server.
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > I'm trying to install PHP4 and MySQL 3.23.33 on a Trusix 1.2
> Linux system.
> > I've used MySQL-3.23.33-1.i386.rpm, MySQL-shared-3.23.33-1.i386.rpm,
> > MySQL-client-3.23.33-1.i386.rpm and MySQL-devel-3.23.33-1.i386.rpm from
> > www.mysql.com. I've downloaded PHP-4.0.4pl1.tar.gz from www.php.net and
> > compiled after a
> > ./configure --with-mysql --with-apxs
> --with-config-file-path=/etc. I've made
> > /etc/php.ini by copying php.ini-dist.
> >
> > Now PHP4 works fine, but something wrong happens when I try to
> connect to a
> > MySQL database. I've tried to setup phpMyAdmin (PHP-based application to
> > administer MySQL through a browser), but when pointing my browser to the
> > start page I only get this error message:
> >
> > Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server
> > through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111) in
> > /home/httpsd/html/phpMyAdmin/lib.inc.php on line 170
> > Error
> >
> >
> > ls -l /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock gives:
> > srwxrwxrwx 1 mysql users 0 Mar 21 1997
> /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock=
> >
> >
> > What have I done wrong??
> >
> > Paal Arne Hoff
> >
> >
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