thank you -- Alex Watila Consultant •E-Learning •Virtualization •QMS •ISMS •Information Systems •ICT -----Original Message----- From: jeremy sinja <jeysinja@gmail.com> Reply-to: Skunkworks Mailing List <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> To: Skunkworks Mailing List <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] isues with moodle install Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 00:48:03 +0300 Couple of ideas in my head. 1. You might be running mysql client but not the server. 2. If running on Lampp they normally have issues with mysqld.sock tunneling. If so try uninstall LAMPP and Install LAMP separately Thats all I can think of as for now On May 5, 2014 11:40 PM, "Alex Watila" <awatila@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: dear all, Kindly assist me with the following issue i am having installing moodle 2.6 on a centos 6.5 minimal install. I am using MariaDB as the database Error: Database connection failed It is possible that the database is overloaded or otherwise not running properly. The site administrator should also check that the database details have been correctly specified in config.php tail -f /var/log/httpd/error_log indicates the following error [Mon May 05 18:20:54 2014] [error] [client ***.***.***.***] PHP Warning: mysqli::mysqli(): (HY000/2002): Connection timed out in /var/www/html/moodle/www/lib/dml/mysqli_native_moodle_database.php on line 375, referer: http://*.*.*.*/moodle/ regards, -- Alex Watila Consultant •E-Learning •Virtualization •QMS •ISMS •Information Systems •ICT _______________________________________________ skunkworks mailing list skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke ------------ List info, subscribe/unsubscribe http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------ Skunkworks Rules http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 ------------ Other services @ http://my.co.ke _______________________________________________ skunkworks mailing list skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke ------------ List info, subscribe/unsubscribe http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------ Skunkworks Rules http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 ------------ Other services @ http://my.co.ke