[CentOS] Cacti Installation on CentOS 5

[Gabriel - IP Guys]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
> Behalf Of John Doe
> Sent: 02 September 2009 14:13
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Cacti Installation on CentOS 5
> 
> From: Gabriel - IP Guys <Gabriel at impactteachers.com>
> > FATAL: Cannot connect to MySQL server on 'localhost'. Please make
> sure
> > you have specified a valid MySQL database name in
> 'include/config.php'
> >
> > The database configuration in config.php is correct, and is
readable,
> > because if I change the hostname, the error message changes
> accordingly.
> > I can connect to the MySQL database just fine with the configuration
> > information that is in config.php. Any ideas would be appreciated -
> If
> > this become too off topic, someone feel free to say so.
> 
> Checked about hostname vs socket connection to mysql?
>    http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/can-not-connect-to-
> server.html
> 
> JD
> 

Thank you JD! (But I can't do this all on my own, no I know, I'm no
superman!) In case this doesn't make sense, Google the words in brackets

I can connect locally from the CLI to mysql, and I have a number of
website using the mysql also running on that system. But thank you for
the tips