Can't connect to database from PHP

[danwarner2003]

I have successfully installed Apache with PHP and MySQL server from tar.gz files.

PHP was configured with Apache and PHP with MySQl with PHP

Everything is functioning but I can't connect to a MySQL database at all from PHP at all.

MySQl was:

--prefix=/usr/local/mysql

PHP was:

--prefix=/usr/local/mysql
--with-xml
--with-apache=/usr/local/apache
--enable-track-vars

Apache was:

--active-module=src/modules/php4/libphp4.a
--enable-module=php4
--prefix=/usr/local/apache

Thanks alot in advance.

Could it be something to do with mysql.sock?

Dan

[toma42]

except under specific circumstances, you should only need to supply
--with-mysql
instead of the whole path to mysql. Try recompiling that way to see if it helps.

Also, you didn't tell us what error message you were getting telling you you couldn't connect

[danwarner2003]

Thanks alot!

With only including that PHP compiled fine and now the database support works

Thanks