Hi there! I want to connect to a MySQL sever with a perl script using named-pipes instead if TCP/IP.
I'm running on windows xp with activeState Perl, using DBD::mysql to make the connection.
I configured the server to enable named-pipes like this on my.ini 
socket = C:/temp/mysql.sock
enable-named-pipe
skip-networking

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and this is what my script looks like: 
my $dsn = 'DBI:mysql:mydb;mysql_socket=/temp/mysql.sock';
my $db_user_name = 'user';
my $db_password = 'password';
my $dbh = DBI->connect($dsn, $db_user_name, $db_password);

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Note: I didn't include the C: in the string because it thinks what comes after the ":" is the host name.
when I run the script I get this: 
DBI connect('mydbmysql_socket=/temp/mysql.sock','user',...) failed:
 Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061) at myscript.pl l
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Does DBD::mysql support named pipes? Do you know if it understands that "/" is actually "C:\"? If not, how do I tell it to look in C:?

Thanks!
David

In reply to Connect to MySQL server on Windows using named pipe (perl DBD::mysql) by darist

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