Can't Connect to MySQL local Server

Janet and Miles, Thank you for your suggestions. Here is more information for you. I am running: Fedora core 5 Linux php 5.14 apache 2.2.2 mysql 5.0.22 I have added the mysql_error code to my script as you suggested. I already knew the what the error was by looking in the error logs. It is, "Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (13)" I have run phpinfo, and it appears that MYSQL is enabled. The MYSQL_SOCKET line in phpinfo( ) gives the path to the socket file exactly as above. I have checked and the socket is there with read and execute permissions for everyone. I did try to connect using 127.0.0.1 and got a similar error message, "Can't connect to MySQL server on '127.0.0.1' (13)" I can connect to the server just fine at the command line with the mysql client, using the command >mysql -hlocalhost -u<usename> -p<password> The socket declaration in my.cnf is /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock so it matches what php expects. What other suggestions can you give to me? Thank you.