Simon Billis wrote:
> I suffered from this also.
>
> To resolve I did the following:
>
> I put in a symlink in /tmp for mysql.sock pointing to /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock then
>it all worked fine.
>
> I'm sure that this is not the correct way of doing it so if anyone else has a
>solution to the problem I would love to know, but it was a quick and dirty resolution.
>
> Cheers
>
> Simon
>
> On Monday, March 11, 2002 11:30 pm, David Keyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> cut/
> >Did that already - now I get :
> >
> >Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server through
> >socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (111)
> >
> >David
> >
>
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Thanks Simon, it works -
I added this line to my connection script in an atempt to make it more portable.
$sockset=shell_exec("ln -s -f /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock /tmp/mysql.sock");
David
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