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in reply to connect to DBD::MYSQL

  1. Please remove your credentials (or replace them with something stupid)
  2. Is localhost present in /etc/hosts?

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

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Re^2: connect to DBD::MYSQL
by fionbarr (Friar) on Jan 31, 2014 at 21:11 UTC
    thanks....the credentials are already 'stupid'. This is a windows7 machine.
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      Did you try to replace localhost with 127.0.0.1?

      edit (added question): Is the error really 'Unknown MYSQL server host ' localhost' <11004>', as in '<space>localhost? Could it be your code is not actually what you pasted, and the is a space before $hostname?


      Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn
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        the code is identical, i.e. NO space before 'localhost' tried with 127.0.0.1 get failed: access denied for user 'test_user'@'localhost' I am doing this and still doesn't work 
        use test;
# create table  (name char(20));
CREATE USER 'test_user'@'localhost';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON * . * TO 'test_user'@'localhost';
select * from ttt;

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        seems like the 'user' does not have access privileges. Any ideas?
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