Hello all, I hope you can help me with a problem I have been trying to figure out for the past week. I bought Red Hat 7 and am trying to get Apache/PHP/MySQL working correctly. Using the Red Hat install program, I installed all the RPMs including the php, mod_php, apache, mysql, mysql-php, mysql-server, etc. I know Apache works and so does PHP, when its not trying to access MySQL. However, when I try to upload phpMyAdmin to the webserver and then access it, I get the following error: Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111) in lib.inc.php on line 255 Error MySQL said: Back That's the entire page that shows up at http://myipaddress/phpMyAdmin/ What is going on? What does that mean? When I am at the console of the Red Hat machine, and I type: mysql start I get the same error: Can't connect to loacl MySQL server through socket 'var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111). When I go to the /var/lib/mysql directory, there is nothing listed in a 'ls' command. Thanks for any help. As you can guess, I am rather new the Linux as a server operating system. Ryan Shrout Athlonmb.com Production Manager http://www.athlonmb.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
