Cranky Weasel

SOLVED Problem is SELinux restricting access to the socket. Verified by performing a "setenforce 0".

From mysqld.log: 060327 22:40:59 mysqld started 060327 22:40:59 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 43655 060327 22:40:59 [Note] /usr/libexec/mysqld: ready for connections. Version: '5.0.18' socket: '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' port: 3306 Source distribution From phpinfo ( at URL REMOVED ) mysqli MysqlI Support enabled Client API version 5.0.18 MYSQLI_SOCKET /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock mysql MySQL Support enabled Further details at the link above. Port is 3306. Socket is present: srwxrwxrwx 1 mysql mysql 0 Mar 27 22:40 mysql.sock I can log directly into mysql using the command line: [root@server mysql]# mysql -u wordpress -p Enter password: Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 8 to server version: 5.0.18 Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer. mysql> For the life of me I simply cannot get these two to talk to each other. I've been trying for something like 15 hours, scouring documentation and searching the web, and I have come up empty. Can anybody suggest anything at all? PHP works, MySQL works... they just won't work together. I've also overridden the default_socket and default_port settings in /etc/php.ini to no avail.