Elisabeth Freeman wrote:
I was running 1.4.5, on MySQL 4.x and php 4.x. I tried to find info about this problem online, and saw one message from someone who said it was related to an update in the php version on Mac, but I checked the documentation and MediaWiki 1.4.5 doesn't seem to require php 4.x specifically.
My test system uses several custom installations of PHP so I haven't seen this exact problem, but it sounds like this problem here:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060111113313511&lsrc=osxh
Fiddling with the socket files as in that page should help, give it a try.
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