localhost:/tmp/mysql5.sock issue

New Member Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 6

Having a slight issue with v2.5 - during installation, I have no errors, no problems, everything goes according to plan - however - once the installation is complete and the installation directory is deleted I get an error as such:

Connect Error (2005) Unknown MySQL server host 'localhost:/tmp/mysql5.sock' (1)

This is a 1and 1 server and I'm just thinking outloud that there may be an issue with the .sock - has anyone encountered this before? I searched the forums and googled it and found varioius references to other programs but not RavenNuke.

Thanks in advance for any and all posts concerning this.

Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 11:15 am

Find out what versions of php and mysql they are using.

Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 11:25 am

MySQL v5.0

PHP Version 5.2.17

Thanks!

Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 11:44 am

According to 1 and 1, to use mysql5, you need to change you host name to localhost:/tmp/mysql5.sock instead of just localhost. localhost defaults to mysql4

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Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 11:55 am

If you already have it set to this, change it to just localhost and see if it works.

Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 2:30 pm

Wow this is extremely wierd. I even used this:

<?php

$hostname="localhost:/tmp/mysql5.sock";
$username="dbo111111111";
$password="myPassword";

$link = mysql_connect("$hostname", "$username", "$password");
if (!$link) {
die('Connection failed: ' . mysql_error());
}
echo 'Connection successful';
mysql_close($link);

?>

With my information in it and it came back with "Connection Successful"

Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 10:26 am

Alright - thanks for your help. I did find a solution - but not a fix.

Thanks!