Horde Session handler issue

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Posted on January 24, 2008

First check to see what socket file mysql is using. If you have a my.cnf file under /etc then you can check there. You can also connect to mysql and issue the following command:
mysql> show variables like ‘socket’;

If it is using anything other than /tmp/mysql.sock then you can override the socket that Horde tries to use by doing the following:

cd /usr/local/cpanel/base/horde/config
vi conf.php

Change the following two lines from:
$conf[‘sql’][‘hostspec’] = ‘localhost’;
$conf[‘sessionhandler’][‘params’][‘hostspec’] = ‘localhost’;

to:
$conf[‘sql’][‘hostspec’] = ‘localhost:/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock’;
$conf[‘sessionhandler’][‘params’][‘hostspec’] = ‘localhost:/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock’;

Obviously substitute the “/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock” part to the correct path to your socket file.

This solved our issues. If anyone else knows of another fix for this please post here and let us know.

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