This could be a MySQL admin problem but I'm not certain so I'm going to ask my question anyway. Apologies if its off-topic or just plain dumb.

I'm moving a whole bunch of sites from one company to another (long story) I have some Perl sites and some PHP. For some reason the Perl sites cannot connect to the database. They fail with "Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysql/mysql.sock'". The mysql server is running, and the PHP scripts work just fine. I can also use the command line client and get in (using the same username and password). What is weird is the file /var/run/mysql/mysql.sock doesn't exist, and I can't find mysql.sock on the system anywhere. I assumed that would break PHP scripts as well but this does not appear to be the case.

Can someone give me a clue? Thanks!!

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In reply to DBI / MySQL weird connection problems by cfreak

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