Re: Zend Studio, phpMyAdmin, and mysql.sock

On Thursday 13 July 2006 21:53, Dave M G wrote: > PHP List, > > I am trying out Zend Studio for editing and debugging my PHP scripts. > > When I first ran it, it kept giving me this error: > Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket /tmp/mysql.sock > > After some research on the web, I found that this could be solved by > editing /etc/mysql/my.conf so that it said: > socket = /tmp/mysql.sock > > I was not thrilled about the idea of changing my MySQL server to meet > the needs of one application, but I wanted to see if it would work, and > it does. > > But, now phpMyAdmin doesn't work, saying: > The server is not responding (or the local MySQL server's socket is not > correctly configured) > > So what I really want to do is put my /etc/mysql/my.conf file back to > the way it was, and make Zend listen on mysql's default socket, not on > /tmp/mysql.sock. > > But, after much searching on the web, and in the Zend forums, I can't > find any information on configuring Zend in this matter. > > What do I need to do to make Zend listen on the MySQL socket that I want > it to listen on? > > (Which, by the way, is /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock) > > Thank you for any advice. > > -- > Dave M G I ran into this problem myself. I had to not use --skip-networking. I use Slackware linux, so that was in the /etc/rc.d/rc.mysqld script. I don't know why that would make PHPMyAdmin not work though. HTH -- Ray Hauge Programmer/Systems Administrator American Student Loan Services www.americanstudentloan.com 1.800.575.1099