Database error.

[ScienceOfMuscle]

Database error in vBulletin : mysql_connect() [<a href='function.mysql-connect'>function.mysql-connect</a>]: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) /home/science1/public_html/forum/includes/class_core.php on line 311 MySQL Error : Error Number : Request Date : Wednesday, December 3rd 2008 @ 02:12:31 PM Error Date : Wednesday, December 3rd 2008 @ 02:12:31 PM Script : http://scienceofmuscle.com/forum/misc.php?show=ccbmessages Referrer : http://scienceofmuscle.com/forum/index.php IP Address : 64.107.10.192 Username : Classname : vB_Database MySQL Version :


I got about 12 of these today. Any idea why?

[Dismounted]

<a href="http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/cantconnect" target="_blank">Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket</a>

Unless the error is happening frequently, I would not worry about it. It may be that the host is just restarting the MySQL daemon.

[ScienceOfMuscle]

It happened about 15 times in 3 days or so. Is that considered frequent? I am also getting these errors on the server:

[Thu Dec 4 15:18:01 2008] [error] [client 76.122.14.227] File does not exist: /home/science1/public_html/favicon.ico
[Thu Dec 4 15:13:36 2008] [error] [client 67.193.218.246] File does not exist: /home/science1/public_html/404.shtml
[Thu Dec 4 15:13:36 2008] [error] [client 67.193.218.246] File does not exist: /home/science1/public_html/favicon.ico
[Thu Dec 4 14:52:33 2008] [error] [client 76.122.14.227] File does not exist: /home/science1/public_html/404.shtml
[Thu Dec 4 14:52:33 2008] [error] [client 76.122.14.227] File does not exist: /home/science1/public_html/favicon.ico
[Thu Dec 4 14:24:34 2008] [error] [client 71.28.237.28] File does not exist: /home/science1/public_html/404.shtml
[Thu Dec 4 14:24:34 2008] [error] [client 71.28.237.28] File does not exist: /home/science1/public_html/favicon.ico
[Thu Dec 4 14:17:23 2008] [error] [client 64.207.62.66] File does not exist: /home/science1/public_html/404.shtml
[Thu Dec 4 14:17:23 2008] [error] [client 64.207.62.66] File does not exist: /home/science1/public_html/favicon.ico
[Thu Dec 4 14:17:20 2008] [error] [client 64.207.62.66] File does not exist: /home/science1/public_html/404.shtml
[Thu Dec 4 14:17:20 2008] [error] [client 64.207.62.66] File does not exist: /home/science1/public_html/favicon.ico

[Dismounted]

I would contact the host just to see what was going on. Do not worry about 404 errors (generally), it's usually people looking for random files that don't exist. But it looks like you have setup your 404 error page as 404.shtml, but that page doesn't exist. Also, your favicon file doesn't seem to exist either.