Re: semi-newbie | php, mysql & RH Enterprise

Nice to see I'm not the only one working on Saturday. :-) Some followups embedded below.

OK, so I try again, this time using --with-mysql=/usr/bin/mysql - no luck. Same message. You need to install the mysql-devel package.

Hmmm...OK. Why? (just for my understanding). Again, never had this problem with RH7.3...

So, how do I either (i) compile PHP (or tweak php.ini) to tell it to look in /var/lib/mysql for the mysql.soc file, or (2) tell mySQL to put the mysql.sock file somewhere else (like, presumably, /tmp, so PHP can find it)? Did you actually look in your php.ini? Because there is an entry there just for this purpose.

I did, and saw several (many!) options related to mySQL, but wasn't sure what to do with them. The one that seems most related to the 'socket' issue is ; Default socket name for local MySQL connects. If empty, uses the built-in ; MySQL defaults. mysql.default_socket = Do I simply change this to mysql.default_socket=/var/lib/mysql Thanks again...