Hi,

I'm having trouble connecting my local Ubuntu 12.04 laptop to my remote MySQL database on my Ubuntu Server 10.04. The Perl code I am using is as follows:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use DBI;

my $username='username';
my $pass='password';
my $db='database_name';
my $dbh = DBI->connect( "dbi:mysql:$db", $username, $pass, { 'PrintErr
+or' => 1, 'RaiseError' => 1 } );

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I have Wordpress installed on the server and it works - I can connect to the database. However, when I fill in the same details in my Perl script I get the following error:

DBI connect('database_name','username',...) failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) at .....

My server is VPS hosting by the way.

Any ideas? I'm a beginner, so keep it as simple as possible :-)

In reply to Connect to MySQL database (on Ubuntu Server) using Perl by liverpaul

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