perl/dbi Can't create TCP/IP socket

[dk henderson]

I narrowed it down and found that perl/dbi works from the shell prompt, but not from cgi.
Not really sure how they interface and would appreciate any pointers.

thanks,
dale 

>
>I can connect to a remote mysql server via the mysql client at a
>cygwin shell prompt, but when I try from the localhost browser running
>apache 1.3.20, I get the above error msg.
>
> $dbh = DBI->connect("$data_source", "$username", "$password",
>{ RaiseError => 1, PrintError => 1, AutoCommit => 1 });
>where $data_source = DBI:mysql:<database name>:www.freesql.org:3306
>
>and <database name> is  a plain text name
>
>Is there any explanation for this?
>
>the apache httpd.conf has the same User as $username in $dbh value.
>
>thanks for any replies,
>dale



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