John Comerford schrieb:
> Hi Sebastian,
>
> I did read somewhere that sockets was not valid for windows, and
> '/tmp/mysql.sock' doesn't resolve to anything on my machine. But I have
> tried the following commands:
>
> $mysqli = new mysqli(".", $username,$password, $database);
> or
> $mysqli = new mysqli(".", $username,$password, $database,null);
>
> and I get the following error:
>
> Can't open named pipe to host: . pipe: MySQL (2)
yes, 'MySQL' is default name of the pipe, used by the libaray
> but when I include the "/tmp/mysql.sock" parameter it works fine. I was
> thinking that maybe I have things configured in such a way that MySQL is
> using "/tmp/mysql.sock" as the pipe name. I am going to do some testing
> this evening to see if my suspicion is correct.
yes:
> Note: you can specify a pipe name on the advanced network page, if required.
possible this is et with the soccket paramter in my.cnf
> [mysqld]
> #port = 3306
> socket = /tmp/mysql.sock
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