I installed Slackware 10 on my laptop and I think it installed with php, apache and mysql.

I searched for them using whereis:

mysql: /usr/bin/mysql /usr/lib/mysql /usr/include/mysql /usr/share/mysql /usr/man/man1/mysql.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mysql.1.gz

php: /usr/bin/php /usr/lib/php /usr/include/php /usr/man/man1/php.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/php.1.gz

apache: /etc/apache /usr/include/apache /usr/libexec/apache

Now, how do I make them work?

I tried to run mysql and I got this error:

ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)

How do I run apache, etc?

Thanks in advance.

Try this as root:
bash /etc/rc.d/rc.httpd restart
bash /etc/rc.d/rc.mysqld restart

Also make sure you have somethin like

"LoadModule php4_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so"

in your apache confiuration

And I have a question for you guys.
I installed those three packages and it went fine, I chmoded rc.httpd and rc.mysqld so they would start at boot time.
Apache starts fine. But not Mysql. It starts and 1 second or two later it comes back with 040816 20:48:50 mysqld ended. And it does that no matter how I start it, manually, with the rc script or at boot time.

Can some one give me a hint on that?

Thanx.

"040816" is probably the version of MySQL
"20:48:50" is probably the time it stopped.

...so, that doesn't give us much information about the problem. Please post log/error messages and /etc/mysql/my.cnf so we have some information about the problem.

Hi I abandoned this thread for awhile, sorry.. but still want to get this working.
I had the same issue as jml5, but /etc/mysql/my.cnf doesn't exist on my system. I don't know where to find the logs.

nevermind, i fixed it.. the command "mysqld_safe" got mysql to work. now for php n apache..