WSN Knowledge Base: Specifying MySQL Port and Socket

Specifying MySQL Port and Socket

Specifying MySQL Port and Socket
By Paul

Although extremely unlikely, it's possible you might run into a host where you can't connect to the database with just the host name, username, password and database name. This may be because it requires a special socket. Open config.php and change

$adb = new db($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass, $databasename);

$adb = new db($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass, $databasename, 3306, '/tmp/mysql5.sock');

where 3306 is your port name and /tmp/mysql5.sock is the socket (these values are specific to your host).

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Submitted: 12/05/07

Description: What to do on an unusual host which doesn't handle port and socket properly automatically.

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