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Article:		Apache Web-Serving With Mac OS X, Part 5
Subject:		Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (61)
Date:		2002-05-04 17:21:56
From:		xor81
excellent articles....did 1-5 without any problems but then i got this on MySQL.....seems it is stopping straight away after starting....any ideas [localhost:/usr/local/mysql] ian% [localhost:/usr/local/mysql] ian% Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /usr/local/mysql/data 020505 01:15:50 mysqld ended

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• update
  2002-05-05 08:20:19  xor81 [View]
  
  
  After a days playing with the terminal I managed to get it to:
  
  Warning: Host 'localhost.dircon.co.uk' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server in /Library/WebServer/Documents/test_sql.php on line 6
  
  can't be far off now :-(
  
  how about tomcat on osx
  Ian
  
  
• Resolution?
  2002-05-22 16:32:58  sanjuanio1 [View]
  
  
  I am having the same problem. Did you find out how to resolve?
  
  I have the following error messages:
  
  Warning: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (61) in /Library/WebServer/Documents/test.php on line 6
  
  Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (61)
  in /Library/WebServer/Documents/test.php on line 6
  
  Warning: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (61) in /Library/WebServer/Documents/test.php on line 10
  
  Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (61)
  in /Library/WebServer/Documents/test.php on line 10
  
  Warning: MySQL: A link to the server could not be established in /Library/WebServer/Documents/test.php on line 10
  
  Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (61)
  
  My Sequel database session keeps ending when I check it using the chown line. I also downloaded the doubleclick startup.
  
  Any ideas?
• Closer
  2002-05-22 18:09:10  sanjuanio1 [View]
  
  
  I havent found the answer quite yet, but getting closer. see these links off of the mysql site if you have this problem.
  
  http://www.mysql.com/doc/C/a/Can_not_connect_to_server.html
  
  http://www.mysql.com/doc/S/t/Starting_server.html
  
  and let me know if it helps.
  
  danke
• Closer
  2003-03-10 11:33:50  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  Take a look at my.cnf
  I assume your machine is running as socket connection allowed only.
  Find the line where it says "skip-networking" and comment it out, then restart the mysqld and it should work...