[rt-users] Re: Internal Server Error

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--- seph <seph at directionless.org> wrote:

 > > DBI
 > connect('dbname=rt3;host=localhost','rt_user',...)
 > > failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server
 > through
 > > socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) at

I could not find this file mysql.sock. Where is this
defenishion, at? on what file? 

 > 
 > well, is /tmp/mysql.sock where your mysql leaves
 > it's socket? I bet
 > not. 
 > 
 > mysql tries to use the socket to talk to the server
 > when the hostname
 > is localhost. However, DBD::mysql doesn't read
 > my.cnf, which means
 > that if your socket is in a funny location, you can
 > lose trying to
 > connect to database running on localhost.
 > 
 > There are 2 easy ways to fix this. Not using
 > "localhost" as the db
 > server name should work, or you can set the
 > environmental variable
 > MYSQL_UNIX_PORT appropriately. for example, one of
 > my RT_SiteConfig
 > files has:
 >
$ENV{'MYSQL_UNIX_PORT'}="/opt/mysql/var/mysql.sock";

where do i configure that? on what file? the
configuration of mysql or RT? 

 > 
 > seph
 >  



		
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