Author Topic: CiviCRM Fatal Error - Cannot connect to Mysql server through socket (Read 3664 times)

DaraghOBrien · May 09, 2007, 08:50:10 am

Hi

I am configuring CiviCRM1.7 to demo on Drupal5.1 for a not-for-profit association I am involved in running.

Have received the following error message:

Error Details:

[db_error: message="DB Error: connect failed" code=-24 mode=callback callback=CRM_Core_Error::handle prefix="" info=" [nativecode=Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)]"]

I've checked the socket path via phpadmin on my hosting provider and the path matches. Any ideas?

Donald Lobo · May 09, 2007, 12:02:06 pm

1. can u get phpmyadmin to check and see the civicrm database tables and content

2. can u confirm that this file actually exists: /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock on your file system

thanx

lobo

DaraghOBrien · May 10, 2007, 01:15:54 am

Thanks for the quick response.

1) The civicrm tables are all present in the database I am installing to.
2) According to the phpmyadmin system variables the socket file is on that path but I will raise a Helpdesk request with my hosting provider to confirm (I don't have root access to the server just to my virtual host).

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