I am currently running 2 MySQL servers on one machine. The production version is 4.0.2, and the new version being tested is 4.1.3

I am having trouble connecting to the new 4.1.3 version via perl with the DBI / DBD. I have the 4.1.3 server listening on port 3307, so i tried connecting using:
DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:<dbname>;port=3307", user, pass);
But this is trying to connect to the 4.0.2 server. I know this because if i provide a user / pass combo that is valid for the 4.0.2 server, the connection succeeds, otherwise it fails.

Does the DBD read /etc/my.cnf, or does it figure things out another way, based on the port provided?

I dont know what to do here, because MySQL doesnt appear to properly read my.cnf files that are in datadir (of the mysql server variables).

Anyone else tried this before?

In reply to DBD MySQL connect problem. by shemp

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