On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 04:43:02PM -0600, Gilbert Sebenste wrote: > On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, replies-lists-redhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > >based on the first error message, it looks like mysql isn't running. > > [Mon Feb 20 15:58:13 2006] [error] [client 202.11.22.33] MySQL ERROR: > > Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket > > '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) > > Hmmm. I don't have MySQL running on either machine. I missed the start of this thread so forgive me if I'm OT. If you install mod_auth_mysql the default auth method for apache will be against mysql. I place this inside my DocumentRoot <Directory "blah"> to disable mysql auth and allow users to turn it on if they need it: AuthMySQLEnable off -- Norman Gaywood, Systems Administrator School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia norm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Phone: +61 (0)2 6773 2412 http://turing.une.edu.au/~norm Fax: +61 (0)2 6773 3312 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html