Gallery URL:
http://www.zippersportfishing.com/photographsBackground: Migrating this site today from a cPanel server to Rackspace cloud. I performed the following steps-
1. Dumped the database via myAdmin and verified (via a text editor) that it seems to be intact. I have a second backup also.
2. Created a new database, user, and password on Rackspace Cloud. Verified that I was able to connect to and manipulate the new database with my new username and password.
3. Added the existing data to my new database by executing an SQL query and had a successful update.
4. Edited the config.inc.php file to reflect the new dbserver, dbuser, dbpass, and dbname.
5. Uploaded the gallery files to the new website using fireFTP.
6. Set the permissions on the "Albums" folder to 755, via fireFTP.
7. I am unable to load the software. The error is: Coppermine critical error: Unable to connect to database ! MySQL said: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)
I RETURNED HERE AND RAN A SEARCH ON THAT ERROR, YES I DID. It returned a page of results, and I read all of them, even the one in Italian. That one seemed to be fairly comprehensive, but I can't understand enough of it to benefit from it.
The gist of the search results for that problem seem to be "ask tech support at your service." I did request tech support, and while Rackspace has always come through for me in the past, their response is basically "We can connect to the database and use it, so the problem must lie with the software."
If someone could point me in the right direction, I would appreciate it sincerely, as now I am sort of crucified between tech support at my service and the forums here. I have migrated and upgraded a number of websites using Wordpress, osCommerce, etc., and haven't run into any substantive database problems.
Thank you in advance for any information you can provide me.