I've installed cacti from the DarwinPorts collection, but am having some trouble getting it to run correctly. Specifically, cacti is looking in the wrong place for the MySQL socket to connect to. I believe that I've followed the instructions, and added this line to my /opt/local/etc/php.ini: mysql.default_socket = /opt/local/var/run/mysql5/mysqld.sock I can confirm that the file exists and is readable: srwxrwxrwx 1 mysql admin 0 Sep 6 16:29 /opt/local/var/run/mysql5/ mysqld.sock Curiously, the problem seems to originate in that either PHP or Apache (I'm using the Personal Web Sharing server that's bundled with 10.4.7) is refusing to honor the line I've specified in the php.ini file. I created a simple test page with a phpinfo() call, and I get this result in the diagnosis: Active Persistent Links 0 Active Links 0 Client API version 4.1.13a MYSQL_MODULE_TYPE external MYSQL_SOCKET /var/mysql/mysql.sock MYSQL_INCLUDE -I/usr/include/mysql MYSQL_LIBS -L/usr/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient So, you can see that the MYSQL_SOCKET variable doesn't reflect what's specified in my php.ini file. FWIW, I copied the php.ini-dist file that came with the php4 distribution into a new file named php.ini and added the required line for the default_socket parameter. When I access cacti, this is the error that I get: Warning: mysql_pconnect(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) in /opt/local/share/cacti/ lib/adodb/drivers/adodb-mysql.inc.php on line 355 I'm sure that it relates to the fact that php itself doesn't know that the MySQL socket actually lives in /opt/local/var/run/mysql5, instead of /var/mysql. The question is, how do I get php to see the file as it's supposed to? The client is a G4 PowerMac running 10.4.7 Client. Thanks! Chris