"Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket /var/run/mysql/mysql.sock". this file does exist, it is in that location

can anyone suggest anything. a google search for that error statement just brings up loads of websites that have that error on the page :o(

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From: scott <scott(at)sporticia.com>
Date: Sat Nov 30 2002 - 13:09:42 EST

I've just installed a new i386 based OpenBSD 3.2 box, and I'm having some difficulties

I don't seem to be able to get apache/php and mysql to work together any more

I installed from the packages mysql server and client, and php4 core and mysql. I have used phpxs -s and then phpxs -a mysql, and it echoed that it had activated the mysql extension

I tried a test page to confirm funtionality with the following code (which works ok on my OpenBSD 3.1 box)

<?php

$link = mysql_connect("localhost", "user", "password")or die("Could not connect");

print "Connected successfully";
mysql_select_db("mysql") or die("Could not select database");

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$query = "SELECT * FROM user";
$result = mysql_query($query) or die("Query failed");

print "<table>\n";
while ($line = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC)) {

        print "\t

$col_value