Question

I have got this error message:

#2002 – The server is not responding (or the local MySQL server’s socket is not correctly configured)

I use Ubuntu 11.10… and Xampp

I used the google, and I saw this solution:

$cfg[‘Servers’][$i][‘socket’] = ‘/var/run/mysql/mysql.sock’; or
$cfg[‘Servers’][$i][‘connect_type’] = ‘tcp’;

But these lines in the config.inc.php file, don’t fix the problem.

Can somebody help me? What else can I do?

I want to learn php 🙂 But there are a lot of problem… Maybe on Windows 7, there isn’t this problem?

Answer 1

So as you are telling that your are just started with php using ubuntu my advise is to start from scratch, here it’s a small guite:

• Install all you will be needing:

  sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 mysql-server phpmyadmin

• Once all it’s installed you will be using the following directories

  /var/www — here its where your server stores your pages

  /var/log/apache2/ — here it’s where logs are stored (quite helpful when apache
  fails,check out the error.log file in that directory)

  /etc/apache2 — apache configuration lives here

  /etc/php5/cli — this is where configuration for php5 console live (when you use ~$ php5 test.php the configuration is read from here)

  /etc/php5/apache2 this is where configuration for php5 server live (when you access from a browser like http://localhost/test.php )

The configuration files out of the box dont need to be modified (maybe for more advance uses you will need to modify them)

To uninstall xamp here its a thread might be helful: http://www.apachefriends.org/f/viewtopic.php?p=135389 . First remove xamp and then follow my instructions