MySQL Bugs: #24336: Message with that Errormessage 2000

Bug #24336	Message with that Errormessage 2000
Submitted:	15 Nov 2006 15:51	Modified:	17 Nov 2006 7:29
Reporter:	Juergen Langrock	Email Updates:
Status:	Unsupported	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	5.0	OS:
Assigned to:	Hartmut Holzgraefe	CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
I got following error message:

Unable to connect to MySQL server. MySQL reported: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)

As a result of the problem I had found this Link:

http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/Error2003-CantConnectToMySQLServer#MySQL_Server_is_running.2C_...

The real problem behind the error was, that I had uploaded the local config.php from the development machine by mistake instead uploading the sequential next to the config file placed "contact.php". Just by mixing the to configurations the error message was displayed. With the error description I went on the wrong path and never though about the config file. I would be helpful if the error occurs that the possibility of a corrupted config file will be displayed.

How to repeat:
The real problem behind the error was, that I had uploaded the local config.php from the development machine (localhost vs. dboxxx.de) by mistake instead uploading the sequential next to the config file placed "contact.php". Just by mixing the to configurations the error message was displayed. With the error description I went on the wrong path and never though about the config file. I would be helpful if the error occurs that the possibility of a corrupted config file will be displayed.

Suggested fix:
With the error description above I went on the wrong path and never though about the config file. I would be helpful if the error occurs that the possibility of a corrupted config file will be displayed.

The wiki pages on forge.mysql.com are community maintained
so i'm afraid they are beyond the scope of this bug tracking
system

I'd suggest that you either put your request into the 
discussion page of the wiki page you mentioned

http://forge.mysql.com/w/index.php?title=Talk:Error2003-CantConnectToMySQLServer&action=ed...

or add your findings to the actual page right away as
everyone is allowed to edit these pages after creating
a forge account