Posted by Michael on 12/28/05 01:42

Hi,

I'm trying to do something which should be very simple - connect to the
MySQL database. Here is the call, followed by the error msg.

$conn = mysql_connect("localhost", "root", "");

Warning: mysql_connect(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through
socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (13) in /var/www/html/buildhw.php on
line 13
failed

I've also tried this with the host arg as "", but I get the same
result. Logging on as root made no difference either.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Thanks,
M. McDonnell

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