MySQL is not working on PHP with Fedora 16

[Mike Wright]

On 01/22/2012 07:02 AM, Fedora Linux wrote:
> Hello
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> I have a web application but it is not working on my Fedora 16 with PHP,
> for some reason it is unable to connect to the MySQL server, it returns
> the error:
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> [Sun Jan 22 08:40:24 2012] [error] [client ::1] PHP Warning:
>   mysql_connect(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
> '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (13) in /var/www/html/install2.php on line
> 22, referer: http://localhost/install.php
>
> Notice that the user/password is correct, the PHP is installed and
> working and MySQL is up and running...
>
> Even the socket is there
>
> # ls -l /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
> srwxrwxrwx. 1 mysql mysql 0 Jan 22 08:37 /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
>
> What can be the problem? The application is okay, I am using it in a
> production server and it is running in 2 other local computers (with
> slackware) for testing purposes...
>
> This is the first time that I can't connect to MySQL via PHP... I don't
> know if it requires an extra configuration or there is a missing package
> that I should install... the httpd log does not give more details...
>
> Thanks for any help!

Do you have port 3306 open on your firewall?
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