Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 11/05/07 01:11

farhan wrote:
> 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.
>

But can you do it from a command line on your web server? That is, are
you running your web server on your local machine, or is it on another
one? And if it is another server, can you connect to the MySQL database
from the command line there?

> 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.
>

IOW you could still have mixed file versions - some from 4.x and some
from 5.1. That doesn't sound good.

What happens if you try to connect with an invalid userid/password
and/or to an invalid system?


> -Farhan
>
>



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