# New Connection Error!@#$%?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-connection-error/232244>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [July 12, 2007, 3:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-connection-error/232244 "2007-07-12T03:57:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![taurus5\_6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9d8465/32.png) [@taurus5\_6](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/taurus5_6)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 3:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-connection-error/232244/1 "2007-07-12T03:57:40Z")

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My site has been working pretty well during the past years. Then suddenly the following message just occured. What’s wrong?

Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock’ (111)…on line 6  
Here is the code it was referring to:

```php
<?php
$dbservername = "localhost";
$dbusername = "myname";
$dbpassword = "mypassword";
$defaultdb = "mydb";
$cn = mysql_connect($dbservername,$dbusername,$dbpassword) or die("connection error ".mysql_error());
$db = mysql_select_db($defaultdb);
?>

```

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