MySQL connection error

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This Dreamhost thread was started by presidentender on 2009-07-08 12:49:22:

Post Reply? I keep getting this error: Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock’ (2) in /mnt/local/home/myusername/myname.com/db.php on line 11 when doing this in PHP: $connection = mysql_connect(”mysql.myname.com”, “mydb_user”, “mypassword”); (obviously, the strings are changed). Anyone else have something similar? My local apache/php/MySQL setup likes my code just fine. I’m also unable to connect to MySQL via command line; it tells me that my world-facing IP is not allowed to connect to this server.

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