mysql.socket

[jkh1978]

I want to run apache, php, and mysql together... but I am getting a mysql.socket error... the file does exist.

I have also tried to upgrade mysql, but I get errors that says that files conflict.

[freakysid]

I hate setting up software. It never goes the way the tutorial/install guide you are following tells you. I hate it when you read tutorial and it says:

Step 3 : Do blah...
Step 4 : If all that worked you will now see a screen with blah...

And you are tearing your hair out because you never got the promissed screen in step 4

Have you started the mysql daemon? You haven't told us which platform you are using. If its *nix

1) to start the mysql server daemon:
/path/to/mysql/bin/mysql.server start

2) if the server daemon is running then you will have the following file:
/tmp/mysql.sock

[jkh1978]

I am running Red Hat 7.0, php 4, apache, and mysql -

The mysql deamon wont start because of this mysql.sock error