On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 04:45:50PM +0100, Thomas Spahni wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Hagen Hoepfner wrote:
>
> > I can normaly use mysql
> > if I am root. But if i'm logged in as normal user or try to connect to mysql
> > via php i got the following error message:
> >
> > MySQL Connection Failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
> > '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (13) in
> > /usr/local/httpd/htdocs/gutefrage/secure/statistic.php on line 19
> >
> > What can I do?
>
> Hagen,
> please read the very fine Manual chapter 4 about the "The MySQL Access
> Privilege System". This will solve your problem.
I guess it won't
This look more like mysql-client (or php) not finding the mysqld.sock
socket, or the socket having the wrong unix permissions.
Check for the permissions of the socket, and check if the client look for it
at the same place as the server creates it.
mfg, Florian Pflug
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