[rt-users] Re: can't connect to mysql.sock?

[bill at daze.net]

Is your web server on a different machine than mysql?

On Fri, 6 Sep 2002,  Drew Mooney wrote:
> Further to this - I AM able to connect to mysql via the command line as user
> 'rtadm' [the rt user and group name at my site]. Which 'user' is trying to
> connect to mysql via the apache DBI?
> 
> However, whenever I attempt to connect to the webui, I get this message:

> DBI->connect(dbname=rt2;host=localhost) failed: Can't connect to local MySQL
> server through socket '/usr/local/mysql/var/mysql.sock'