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.
On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, [iso-8859-1] Pål Arne Hoff wrote:
> 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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