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Old 02-23-2008, 05:35 PM   #1
hil4d
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Question Can't connect to mysql from php script


I am trying to setup a LAMP server to practice database driven web development.

System Confiruration:
Apache 2.2.6
php 5.2.4
mysql 5.0.45

The mysql command line interface works fine.

Isses:
Apache and php works but when i try to connect to a mysql database the html and php works but the mysql does not work - no error message displayed.

html files with embedded php scrips processes only the html code - no php processing. php scripts process both html and php.
 
Old 02-24-2008, 02:08 AM   #2
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Do you have the php-mysql package installed? That's the first thing I would check. What's the complete listing of php and mysql related packages you have installed?
 
Old 02-24-2008, 07:56 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by dla-nor View Post
Do you have the php-mysql package installed? That's the first thing I would check. What's the complete listing of php and mysql related packages you have installed?
Thanks for your response. I am a newbie and I don't know where to find the php-mysql package.

Additional info
---------------
<?php
$mysqli = mysqli_connect('localhost', 'mysql', 'password', 'testDB');

/* check connection */
if (mysqli_connect_errno()) {
printf("Connect failed: %s\n", mysqli_connect_error());
exit();
}

?>

Error Message:

Connect failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)

---------------

I ran the phpinfo() function from a script and found the following listed under the mysql section

MYSQL_SOCKET /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock

but there is no /var/lib/mysql directory on the system



when I typed:
ps xa | grep mysqld

I get:

---------------------------------------------------
1900 ? S 0:00 /bin/sh ./bin/mysqld_safe --datadir=/usr/local/mysql/data --pid-file=/usr/local/mysql/data/localhost.localdomain.pid
2005 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld --basedir=/usr/local/mysql --datadir=/usr/local/mysql/data --user=mysql --log-error=/usr/local/mysql/data/localhost.localdomain.err --pid-file=/usr/local/mysql/data/localhost.localdomain.pid --socket=/tmp/mysql.sock --port=3306
3450 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep mysqld
-----------------------------------------------------

I found:
--socket=/tmp/mysql.sock in the output

ls -l /tmp/mysql.sock
srwxrwxrwx 1 mysql mysql 0 2008-02-22 22:23 /tmp/mysql.sock

I also found this line in /etc/my.cnf
socket = /tmp/mysql.sock

I don't know why the phpinfo() function show

MYSQL_SOCKET /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock


I don't know where to go from here
Thanks
 
Old 02-24-2008, 08:46 PM   #4
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Assuming you're on Fedora (since this is a Fedora sub-forum), use

yum install php-mysql

as root from the command line. If you use a GUI, there is an add/remove front-end available too somewhere.

Edit

Note you can list php packages with

yum list installed php*

and sim. for mysql

Last edited by billymayday; 02-24-2008 at 08:47 PM.
 
Old 02-26-2008, 09:24 AM   #5
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or you could type "rpm -q --all | grep php" without the double quotes
 
Old 02-26-2008, 07:17 PM   #6
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rpm q all - response

Quote:
Originally Posted by shafty023 View Post
or you could type "rpm -q --all | grep php" without the double quotes
Here is the response I got from rpm
What does this say about my php/mysql configuration?

# rpm -q --all | grep php

php-mysql-5.2.4-3
php-ldap-5.2.4-3
php-common-5.2.4-3
php-5.2.4-3
php-pdo-5.2.4-3
php-cli-5.2.4-3

Thanks
 
Old 02-27-2008, 02:30 AM   #7
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Ok, that means that you have the right packages installed. In your other post about mysql.sock, you mention that your my.conf has the right location for the mysql.sock but running phpinfo() gives the wrong location. I'm no expert, but I'm suspecting now that there might be a wrong line in your php.ini file (/etc/php.ini) There's a line that starts with "mysql.default_socket="

Maybe you can check that line to see if it doesn't say the wrong thing there?
 
Old 03-15-2008, 06:06 AM   #8
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chmod user.group

I had a case with a Fedora 6 installation upgraded to Fedora 8, leading to a similar problem with a MySQL socket. I have tried to reinstall MySQL but that didn't correct the problem.

In the end it turned out that the current MySQL installation is using the 'root.mysql' combination of user.group, but the /var/lib/mysql directory and it's contents where set to belong to 'mysql.root'. Just the other way around.

That's a subtle difference, but enough to not allow MySQL to create a socket file in that location.

Using chmod to set proper user.group values did solve the problem in my case.

Hope this helps,
Regards,
SIMP

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Last edited by simplicissimus; 04-02-2008 at 04:33 AM.
 
  


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