On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 05:44:44PM +0800, zhuge xiao wrote: > Is the server running locally and accepting connections on Unix domain > socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"? So what are the permissions on /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432? Can apache write to it? Actually, I think apache normally chroot's to ServerRoot (httpd.conf) when it starts. So you probably need to create a symlink from /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432 to "ServerRoot"/tmp. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461