[MediaWiki-l] Installation - DB connect problems through socket

Hello Folks, I hope someone can help out here. I have setup MW 1.22.* successfully on a test server of my own but am now having trouble going into "production" ... I have a managed Linux server. Via the web panel, I have created a database and a database user. On the command line, I have to connect to the database via a form like : mysql -u user -S /tmp/mysql5.sock -p database I have to use the "socket" form (-S) or it fails to connect (access denied). See : http://faq.1and1.co.uk/web_space__access/mysql/12.html I am trying to set up MW 1.22.7, running the initial setup (mw-config/index.php) to set up the database I get an error : 1) Using database = localhost ERROR = DB connection error: Access denied for user: 'dbuser@localhost' (Using password: YES) (localhost). 2) Using database = localhost:/tmp/mysql5.sock ERROR = DB connection error: Unknown MySQL server host 'localhost:/tmp/mysql5.sock' (1) (localhost:/tmp/mysql5.sock). I refererred to this page for the 2nd format above : http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Config_script "Note: If running MySQL using a different socket file (e.g. mysql on localhost, using --socket=/tmp/mysocketfile), set the database host to:"localhost:/tmp/mysocketfile". Sometimes sockets are called ports. If you have a port number for your database host, follow the same syntax:"my.host.url:port"." I also see a resolved bug (with code I see I have in 1.22.7 (IP.php)) : mysqli: Non-standard port handling broken (explicit parameter int $port expected) https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58153 I tried the command line installer but got problems as well e.g. --dbname <database> --dbserver localhost:/tmp/mysql5.sock --dbuser <dbuser> --dbpass <dbpass> \ --scriptpath "/w" X-Powered-By: PHP/5.5.12 Content-type: text/html ... Setting up database DB connection error: Connection refused (localhost:/tmp/mysql5.sock). Check the host, username and password and try again. Does anyone know how I can get MW connected here? -- Alastair Sherringham http://www.sherringham.net