PhpMyAdmin question

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Oct 28, 2011, at 6:10 AM, Phil Dobbin wrote:

> On 27/10/11 at 01:01, ryandesign at macports.org (Ryan Schmidt) wrote:
> 
>> Yes you do need to somehow get phpmyadmin into your web space. One way would be to create a symlink in your document root. For example if your document root is /opt/local/apache2/htdocs you could do:
>> 
>> cd /opt/local/apache2/htdocs
>> ln -s /opt/local/www/phpmyadmin phpmyadmin
> 
> I took your advice & rather than move the phpmyadmin directory, I used the symlink above.
> 
> MySQL throws the error `access denied #2002 - The server is not responding (or the local MySQL server's socket is not correctly configured) when the phpMyAdmin front page loads.
> 
> in config.inc.php the socket is /tmp/mysql.sock which works with PHP files. I spent a good while Googling this but nothing of any use came up.

With a default MacPorts prefix your mysql5 socket should be here:
/opt/local/var/run/mysql5/mysqld.sock

$ ps ax | grep -v grep | grep -o -E -- "--socket[^ ]+mysql[^ ]+"


Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)