Re: ERROR 2003 (HY000) Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061)

[L RLJ]

UPDATE: I've now got MySQL running and can access it from command line, however I still get the first error message when trying to connect via PHP. Any ideas what could be causing this?

My PHP script is as follows:
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<?php

$link = mysql_connect ('localhost', 'root', 'PASSWORD');

if (!$link) {
die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
}
else {
print 'successful';
}
mysql_close($link);

?>
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The only thing I wasn't sure about was the username 'root', when installing MySQL it never asked me for a username. Could this or something else in the PHP script be the issue? or is there something wrong with the way I have set up PHP/MySQL/Apache?