amicustektips2005
Programmer
What this means ? Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2). The software "MySql" is on my Windows XP machine and my website is on a Linux server. What is the problem ? Thank
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MySql problem '/tmp/mysql.sock' !
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ericbrunson
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mysql.sock is a socket, it should be created by the mysql process if it doesn't exist *provided* the mysql user has write permissions to the directory.
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