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“Re: #2002 – The server is not responding

Posted by: Geoff Ellis (IP Logged)
Date: March 08, 2006 05:27AM

To the people on Mac OS X 10.4.4 and up

During the 10.4.4 OS update, Apple have changed where PHP looks for the MySQL socket file.

You can correct this by:

$ sudo mkdir /var/mysql
$ sudo ln -s /tmp/mysql.sock /var/mysql/mysql.sock

Good Luck
Geoff”

Go Geoff!