[rt-users] Installing on Redhat 7.2

[Harald Wagener]

Neil Bingham wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > > > > I've been trying to install RT on Redhat Linux running
> > > > > Apache 1.3.23 without success.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> After a week on holiday, and some other useful posts on this list I now have
> an installed combination that doesn't give the Mason errors.  Turns out
> Mason 1.02 and RT 2-0-13 work for me.  Hohum.
> 
> However I am now getting Internal Server Errors.  The Apache error log
> gives:
> 
> [Mon Jul 15 15:25:12 2002] [error] Connect Failed Can't connect to local
> MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)
>  at /usr/local/rt2/lib/RT.pm line 27
> 
> I can connect to the database using the mysql binary and the rt2 username
> and password.  The config file has the correct username and password
> specified (and apache has been stopped and restarted).
> 
> I am pretty confidant there isn't a general MySQL problem as we are running
> Bugzilla on this server too.
> 
> RT is unfortunately not writing logs to /tmp as per the config file.  The RT
> FAQ seems rather empty on this subject...
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Neil.

Hello Neil,
in the mysql configuration you can look up where MySQL is creating it's local
communications socket. This is either /tmp/mysql.sock  or
/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock or something around that. 

You can easily fix this by either fixing Your mysql setup, or simply create a
link from the real location to /tmp/mysql.sock.

The reason this is not in the RT FAQ is that this really is  a MySQL problem.

Regards,
	Harald

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