Re: mysql_connect() socket issue

[James King]

still no resolution.

typing:

php -r "mysql_connect('localhost', 'username', 'password');"

results in:

Warning: mysql_connect(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) in Command line code on line 1

While the mysql CLI is able to connect fine using localhost. Doing so and running the 'status' macro shows that it's using /tmp/mysql.sock

It bothers me that php won't throw the error if I specify the machine's domain in the connection parameters instead of the 'localhost' keyword. I double check as well that there's only a single instance of mysqld running just to be sure.

I've been scouring the forums... any thoughts?