Posted by farhan on 11/05/07 00:10

Hi Jerry,

I'm not sure how to control the length of time to wait other than the
timeout value for mysql.connect which phpinfo() says is 60 seconds.
Firefox seems to try for about 5 seconds (you know the browser wait
thingy) before giving up. The MySql server seems to be fine as I can
connect to it at that address and username/password via the command
line.

On a related note, I did forget to mention a bit of history. To start
with my Linux installation contained MySql 4.x but when installing on
Windows, I used 5.1. So consequently when I tried to connect from the
4.x client to the 5.1 server, it said something about not being about
to authenticate, so I downloaded 5.0 on linux and everything worked
fine on the command line. However, phpinfo() still reported the MySQL
client as 4.x. Not finding any installation scripts, I manually
copied all executables to /usr/bin and all libraries to /lib. Now
phpinfo is correct.

BTW, my php version is 4.3.10.

-Farhan

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