Mysql – PHP – Linux and whats left of my sanity

Calvin — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:04:08 +0000

So I have been working on setting up a Linux box with PHP5 and mysql mostly just to fart around with but also because I like learning how to do these things. I was having a hell of a time getting PHP and mysql to install properly on my distro - ubuntu 8

I originally installed PHP using apt-get and then installed mysql doing the same but was having issues getting them to work...no big shocker considering I am still fairly new to Linux. Eventually I did the following to get everything working, well so far anyway

Here it is:

1. sudo tasksel install lamp-server - this installs the entire LAMP stack (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP) and does most of the work for you (i like this)

2. sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin - configure it for apache2 (installed above) this helped me get rid of the Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_connect() I was getting...basically php was not configured to speak to mysql

3. I really cheated on this one because I was getting the following error Lost connection to MySQL server at ‘reading initial communication packet’, system error: 111 like any good linux noob I decided to google that up and came up with an article located here that worked like a charm. Here are the steps:

* sudo gedit /etc/mysql/my.conf - comment the line corresponding to ‘bind-address’
* sudo gedit config.inc.php - in the /etc/phpmyadmin folder
* add or edit a line $cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = ‘localhost’;
* restart mysql using sudo /etc/init.d/mysql restart

Anyway...HTH

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