Dear monks, a simple but frustrating problem: my cgi script interacts just fine with the database when I run it from the command line, but won't connect when I run it through apache. The /var/log/apache/error_log says: 
DBI connect('fab:127.0.0.1:3306','fab',...) failed: Can't create TCP/I
+P socket (1) at /var/www/cgi-bin/fab.cgi line 180
Couldn't connect to database: Can't create TCP/IP socket (1) at /var/w
+ww/cgi-bin/fab.cgi line 180.

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I am not entirely sure where to start solving this. I'm running MySQL Ver 12.22 Distrib 4.0.20a, for Win95/Win98 (i32), Server version: Apache/1.3.29 (Cygwin), I compiled the MySQL client under Cygwin to get the library and header files (as per the recipe at http://search.cpan.org/src/RUDY/DBD-mysql-2.9004/INSTALL.html#windows/cygwin), and perl v5.8.5 built for cygwin-thread-multi-64int. I reinstalled the latest versions for DBI and DBD::mysql today. The incantation: 
$dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:fab:127.0.0.1:3306",$user,$pass);

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works fine when I execute the script from the command line, but not when invoked by apache. I hope this is not bad form to ask here, because I'm worried it might be a permissions thing w.r.t. the apache process? Not sure what to do, I didn't change anything in httpd.conf? Thanks, as always.

Edited by Chady -- converted <pre> to <code> tags.

In reply to DBI, DBD::MySQL, Apache & Cygwin by rvosa

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