Re: Need help getting DBI to work under mod_perl

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On 6-Feb-05, at 12:46 PM, Jay Scherrer wrote:
>> Boysenberry Payne wrote:
>>> I'm able to run DBI->connect() fine when I run my .pl and .pm
>>> scripts as mod_cgi.
>>> Once I set up my httpd.conf and startup.pl files it no longer
>>> works. I get the following:
>>>
>>> Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (49)
>>>
>>> I can't find what (49) means anywhere...

It's a system error number. On FreeBSD, at least, it means this:

      49 EADDRNOTAVAIL Cannot assign requested address.  Normally 
results from
              an attempt to create a socket with an address not on this
              machine.

but YMMV