Apache was pre-installed on this VPS, and that was the only thing I didn't install myself. Thanks for the advice. I will remove that and...
That's good to see. It means the changes are not being made in a file that is not relevant to your setup. Restart mysql and see if you can...
You are right. Normally that is how the my.cnf is configured, but at this point, for some reason, that setting for the server is being ignored....
There's the problem right there. Your mysql client is looking for /tmp/mysql.sock while the actual file exist at /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock...
That should be enough to get us some info. Please provide the output of: tail -30 /var/log/mysql/error.log Thanks.
Thanks for the update. OK. That looks good but you still can't connect to the server from your local client. The reason I asked for mysql being...
So the client and the server both showing the same location for the socket file? In your my.cnf, you should see. [mysqld] socket =...
As mentioned in the previous reply. The general rule is the [client] section to match what the [mysqld] section has for the socket file location,...
OK, at this point, we have established that mysql is running, but the client cannot connect to it. Few things to check. Does /tmp/mysql.sock...
So mysql is running. That is good. Now since it complained about restarting via the old /etc/init.d script, go ahead and restart it. service...
It should not have anything to do with your connection, once you are connected successfully via ssh, your commands are running on the server you...
Thanks for the update. OK, we have 2 possibilities, MySQL is installed but not running, or it was not installed. If you have followed step 12...
Is mysql running? What is the output of ps aux | grep mysql | grep -v grep Did you set your mysql root password before you started...
(If this was answered before, please excuse this message and point me to where I can read about it) Please help, I am about to lose my sanity....
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