From:	Rahul	Date:	Sat May 10 22:42:10 2008
Subject:	Re: PHP-MYSQL Error: Can't connect to MySQL socket. Can someone help me out please?

Thanks a lot for your reply.

I have tried using

$host = "localhost";
$db = "dbname";
$table_main = "tablename";
$dbusername = "root";
$dbpass = "passhere";

mysql_connect($host, $dbusername, $dbpass) or die(mysql_error());

and

$host = "mycomputer.webaddress.com";
$db = "dbname";
$table_main = "tablename";
$dbusername = "root";
$dbpass = "passhere";

mysql_connect($host, $dbusername, $dbpass) or die(mysql_error());

And this mycomputer.webaddress.com works when I use with mysql like this:

mysql -h mycomputer.webaddress.com -u root -p

Thank You

Nathan Nobbe wrote:
> On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 12:30 AM, Rahul <rahul986@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I am using Fedora Core 4. As I was unable to use PHP or MySQL together, I
>> uninstalled both of them and installed again using the following commands:
>>
>> yum install mysql
>>
>> And then
>>
>> apt-get install php php-devel php-gd php-imap php-ldap php-mysql php-odbc
>> php-pear php-xml php-xmlrpc curl curl-devel perl-libwww-perl ImageMagick
>>
>> And then started the mysql server.
>>
>> I am able to connect to the server from the console my typing
>>
>> mysql -h <hostname> -u root -p <mypass>
>>
>> However, when I try to connect to mysql through PHP I get the following
>> errors:
>>
>> PHP Warning:  mysql_query(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through
>> socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) in /export/home/rahul/may/sample.php
>> on line 5
>> PHP Warning:  mysql_query(): A link to the server could not be established
>> in /export/home/rahul/may/sample.php on line 5
>> Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
>> '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)
>>
>> Can someone please help me out?
> 
> 
> what is the hostname you are typing at the command line and what is the one
> you are using when trying to connect from php?  when using mysql, you will
> have to have a separate entry for localhost connections.
> 
> -nathan
>