Bought a book on this subject matter. I have a server with Red Hat on it that I am loading up with mysql, apache and PHP.
The mysql was a trick of sorts. I had loaded and then load apache, that worked and then load php. PHP was missing the mysql.sock file, it was not happy on the ./configure. Today found out that msyql was not really running. I was able to remove the package and re install. Then found received another mysql.sock error. This one I found on the internet, and told me...