Re: PHP-MYSQL Error: Can't connect to MySQL socket. Can someone helpme out please?

By the way it installed MySQL 6 and PHP 5.0.4 and from the console this command does not work: mysql -u root -p but only this works: mysql -h <hostname> -u root -p I tried doing the same while connecting to the database via php but it does not work. Rahul wrote:

I am using Fedora Core 4. As I was unable to use PHP or MySQL together, I uninstalled both of them and installed again using the following commands: yum install mysql And then apt-get install php php-devel php-gd php-imap php-ldap php-mysql php-odbc php-pear php-xml php-xmlrpc curl curl-devel perl-libwww-perl ImageMagick And then started the mysql server. I am able to connect to the server from the console my typing mysql -h <hostname> -u root -p <mypass> However, when I try to connect to mysql through PHP I get the following errors: PHP Warning: mysql_query(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) in /export/home/rahul/may/sample.php on line 5 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): A link to the server could not be established in /export/home/rahul/may/sample.php on line 5 Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) Can someone please help me out?