[snip] ...please snip replies.... [/snip] Your php.ini should be in /etc/apache/ Once you have it there restart your Apache server. Now, let's creat a MySQL connection string in a seperate file (not in the php.ini, which acording to some of the stuff I have read you have done. Also there should not a reference to mysql.sock in the php.ini) that will return errors to us if it fails; <?php if(!($dbconnect = mysql_pconnect("name_of_the_database_server", "user_name", "password"))){ echo"Failed to connect to database!\n"; echo mysql_error."\n"; exit(); } if(!mysql_select_db("the_database_you_wish_to_use", $dbconnect)){ "Failed to select database!\n"; echo mysql_error()."\n"; exit(); } ?> Let us know how this works for you. -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php