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Trojan

2002-10-04, 4:25 am

i'm trying to connect to a mysql database via a php script but here's the
trouble i run into:
Warning: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
'/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/ action.php on line 7

Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server
through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) in /usr/
local/apache/htdocs/action.php on line 7
Could not connect MySQL

here's my script:
<?php
$location = "localhost";
$username = "xxx";
$password = "xxx";
$database = "test2";

$conn = mysql_connect("$location","$username","$password");
if (!$conn) die ("Could not connect MySQL");
mysql_select_db($database,$con
n) or die ("Could not open database");
?>

can anyone help?
Johnny Ljunggren

2002-10-04, 6:25 am

Trojan wrote this:

> i'm trying to connect to a mysql database via a php script but here's the
> trouble i run into:
> Warning: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
> '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/ action.php on line 7

<snip>

Can you connect through the commandline? ie
mysql -uxxx -pxxx test2

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Sybren

2002-10-04, 9:25 am

Johnny Ljunggren wrote:

> Can you connect through the commandline? ie
> mysql -uxxx -pxxx test2


If that works, try

# mysql -u xxx -pxxx -h localhost test2

That will use the network (loopback) device instead of UNIX sockets. PHP
uses the network as well for connecting to MySQL. If this doesn't work, but
the command Johnny gave you does, you have to grant more permissions to
user xxx

# mysql -u root -pxxxx
# grant insert,select,delete,update on test2.* to xxx@localhost identified
by 'xxx';
# flush privileges;

That should fix things.

Sybren

Giannis Georgalis

2002-10-04, 2:25 pm

Trojan <trojan@hotmail.com> writes:
> i'm trying to connect to a mysql database via a php script but here's the
> trouble i run into:
> Warning: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
> '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/ action.php on line 7
>
> Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server
> through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) in /usr/
> local/apache/htdocs/action.php on line 7
> Could not connect MySQL


I will assume that you are running mysqld ...

Then your problem is that php functions try to find the mysql socket
in /tmp ...and obviously mysql.sock is somewhere else (probably in
$MYSQL_INSTALL_PREFIX/var/run/). So you should either tell php where
to find mysql.sock (in php.ini IIRC, if you have root access) OR make
a symbolic link /tmp/mysql.sock --> /path/to/real/mysql.sock

good luck!
Giannis

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