Hi, I am having some trouble connecting to a database through DBI. I get the error in my error log: DBI->connect failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server (2) and then the name of the script. I have had no troubles up until the last 24 hours, and it happened all at once. I have the problem on a shared hosting machine, and the company is having a lot of trouble working out why I can connect to MySQL from the Shell (even if I run the same script from the shell prompt as from the web, it works from the shell and not from the web). I was wondering if any of you guys had come across this problem and had a solution. I am not aware of the user_id of the web server changing (I have even had the script creating and writing to files just to make sure it is the same user_id as the shell login), but I am at a loss to work out the problem. I have tried manually setting the username and password and have buggered around with the host settings and sockets to no avail. If you have any ideas, please let me know, Thanks Geoff This email is intended for the named recipient only. The information contained in this message may be confidential, or commercially sensitive. If you are not the intended recipient you must not reproduce or distribute any part of the email, disclose its contents to any other party, or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this email in error, please contact the sender immediately. Please delete this message from your computer. The contents of this email remain the intellectual property of the author, and commercial or other ideas discussed in this email are retained as property of the author.
