Re: [mod-security-users] SecChrootDir - RH 8.0, Apache 2.0.40, an d PHP 4.2.2

[Ivan R. <iv...@we...>]

>>  In your PHP program, change the way you reference MySQL from
>>  'localhost' to '127.0.0.1'. That will force the client libraries
>>  not to use the domain socket but use the TCP/IP socket instead.
>>  Consequently, the chroot will no longer be a problem.
>>
> Already had thought of that, and gave it a shot, but a whole slew of new
> errors cropped up.  I didn't, however, try '127.0.0.1' -- I tried the "real"
> IP -- and thus my new errors because of MySQL security.  

  The real IP would work too, but you would need to configure the MySQL
  to accept connections from that IP address/hostname.

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