Matt,
Thursday, September 05, 2002, 9:33:25 AM, you wrote:
MTW> On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 04:42, Victoria Reznichenko wrote:
>> 1. Check [MySQL] section of the php.ini, you can find
>> mysql.default_socket here.
MTW> This value is empty, indicating a default port
You can specify location of the socket file here.
>> 2. You can specify another path to the socket file for the MySQL
>> server with --socket=# mysqld option.
MTW> How can I tell what ports its using now?
SHOW VARIABLES LIKE "port"
MTW> I'd like to stick with
MTW> defaults...
default port 3306
>> 3. You can just create a symbolic link
MTW> How does one accomplish this? I'm not sure how a symlink will help this
MTW> problem..
Why not?
You socket file is located in the /var/lib/mysql. Your client (php
script) is looking for the socket file in the /tmp dir. So, you can
"notify" client where socket file is located (php.ini), you can run
mysqld with --socket=/tmp/mysql.sock option or you can create symlink.
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