MySQL socket errors

[Joe Cool]

 

Whenever I try to finish step 4 of the install, I put in 'localhost' as the MySQL server name. This is what  get:

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Warning: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) in /var/www/html/yi/install.php on line 175

Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) in /var/www/html/yi/install.php on line 175
Cannot connect to database server with given data
(Mind you that mysql works fine via command line)

Well, I try other things, like 127.0.0.1, and that gets me
an access denied:

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Warning: Host 'localhost.localdomain' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server in /var/www/html/yi/install.php on line 175

Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Host 'localhost.localdomain' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server in /var/www/html/yi/install.php on line 175
Cannot connect to database server with given data  

Please help . Sorry for being braindead, but I have been trying to get this to work for about 3 hours .

[joe cool]

Well, I fixed it by adding a socket param to mysql in a cron job.