localhost NO, 127.0.0.1 YES

[Anon]

I install PHP 4 in a server Red Hat linux, and when It's impossible to connect to a database Mysql via localhost, but I can connect to a Mysql Daabse via 127.0.0.1

Why?

[[deleted]]

define "impossible to connect"?

[Anon]

The message is :
Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111) in /mnt/novell/fs99/sys/users/JCAVADIN/HTDOCS/authorize.php on line 11

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /mnt/novell/fs99/sys/users/JCAVADIN/HTDOCS/authorize.php on line 12

and if I change localhost with 127.0.0.1 it's good

[Anon]

Check your DNS (or hosts file) to make sure that "localhost" and "localhost.yourdomainname.com" point to "127.0.0.1". It sounds like they don't.

-- Michael
Darkstreak Consulting
www.darkstreak.com

[Anon]

It's not that. The Problem it's another. But what?

[Anon]

have you tried changing localhost to: localhost.localdomain? i am running on red hat 7 here and that is what i use. just go to the command line and see what the name is.
i.e.:

red hat 7 at work it is: localhost.localdomain

debian at home it is: localhost

[brandonschnell]

1) verify that /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock exists

2) check the permissions on the socket file and the /var/lib/mysql/ directory

chmod o+x /var/lib/mysql/

[Anon]

MySQL sux ^_