something like this:
# Define database connection parametersmy $database =
'your_database';my $hostname = '127.0.0.1'; # or any other valid
hostname/IP addressmy $port = '3306'; # Default MySQL port#
Construct DSN stringmy $dsn =
"DBI:mysql:database=$database;host=$hostname;port=$port";# Define
username and passwordmy $user = 'your_username';my $password =
'your_password';# Connect to the databasemy $dbh = DBI->connect($dsn,
$user, $password, {RaiseError => 1});
Regards,
On Sun, Sep 1, 2024 at 8:25 AM Dennis German <dger...@real-world-systems.com>
wrote:
> How can DBI use a database SERVER not a socket?
>
> 1) perl code segment
>
> $host="sdb-74.hosting.stackcp.net"; #actually not used
>
> $database="realger1_birding"; $user='realger1_observr'; $pass='birxxx';
> use DBI;
> use DBD::mysql;
>
> my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:$database",$user, $pass );
> if ( ! $dbh ) { die "-- Failed to connect to MySQL
> database:DBI->errstr()"; }
>
> 2) ERROR
>
> DBI connect('realger1_birding','realger1_observr',...) failed: Can't
> connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2
> "No such file or directory") at ./history.pl line 25.
>
> 3) cat ~/.my.cnf #only used by MySQL programs anyway
> [mysql]
> host=sdb-74.hosting.stackcp.net
>
> 4) platform:
>
> uname -a
> Linux ssh5.dfw.stackcp.net 3.10.0-1160.114.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Mar 20
> 15:54:52 UTC 2024 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> 5) perl -MDBI -e 'DBI->installed_versions'
> Perl : 5.016003 (x86_64-linux-thread-multi)
> OS : linux (3.10.0-957.1.3.el7.x86_64)
> DBI : 1.627
> DBD::mysql : 4.023
> DBD::Sponge : 12.010002
> DBD::Proxy : 0.2004
> DBD::Gofer : 0.015326
> DBD::File : 0.41
> DBD::ExampleP : 12.014310
> DBD::DBM : 0.08
>
>
