MAMP Installation local to Server and SQL Errors

[whisper1967]

I feel like giving up, I have created my site locally for speed and testing purposes, everything is working, so I have uploaded it all to my server, but now I get an error messge:

Link to database cannot be established: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (13)

 

I tried creting a php file with the following lines:

$mysqli = new mysqli("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "my_database");

 

as someone suggested to another user for a similar problem and trying to access that via the browser, and the browser returns the same line of text. I'm afraid I don't know sql at all so I don't know if that is what its supposed to do or not, eitherway I'm stuck, can anyone help me please?

 

Thanks in advance

[PascalVG]

Hi Whisper,

Did you try the possible solutions as given in this link?

http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/7901/

 

My 2 cents,

pascal

[benjamin utterback]

Hi whisper1967, have you contacted your hosting provider. It may be an issue on their side. Who is hosting your website?

[whisper1967]

Thanks, I got it to work in the end. To tired and too many places where I could have made a mistake, a fresh day and all was good.

Thankyou