You should be able to do this fine. It would help if you specified what
the error you were getting was.
Atle
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, Jim Lyons wrote:
> I recently installed 2 instances of mysql on the same server, using port
> 3307 for the second server, the normal 3306 for the first server. I found
> that while logged onto that box I could communicate to the 3307 instances
> using the socket parameter. Using the port parameter (--port=3307) didn't
> work.
>
> I am now trying to set up master-to-master replication on that machine,
> where the 2 masters are the 2 instances running on that machine (sounds a
> little flaky, but it's for a dev box and it ought to work). It's not
> working and I'm wondering if it's because I can't specify the socket the
> 3306 master needs to connect to on the 3307 master. In the "change master
> to" command I can only specify the port. I did specify it as 3307 but the
> "slave" still can't connect.
>
> Has anyone done this?
>
> --
> Jim Lyons
> Web developer / Database administrator
> http://www.weblyons.com
>
