Having trouble getting Xataface installed.

Archived from the Xataface Users forum.

flashhacker — Mon Sep 26, 2011 5:12 pm

After quite a few tries at the installer I opted to manually install the program on my server.

When I try to access the subfolder on my server that i installed in I get this warning:

Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Lost connection to MySQL server at ‘reading initial communication packet’, system error: 111 in …./database/xataface/Dataface/Application.php on line 337
Error connecting to the database: Lost connection to MySQL server at ‘reading initial communication packet’, system error: 111

I don’t know if this makes a difference but my original problem with the installer was that It wouldn’t accept my mySQL username and password.

Would appreciate some help

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shannah — Mon Sep 26, 2011 5:36 pm

Doing a google search for the error finds a number of pages with possible solutions. E.g.
http://drupal.org/node/129982

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flashhacker — Tue Sep 27, 2011 2:46 pm

Yeah, so I narrowed the problem down to my mySQL hostname and got that resolved….

and as for the installer problems, apparently my ftp didn’t upload everything correctly(or it didn’t unzip correctly) either way I’m up and running now

Thanks for the help

Any idea when the documentation will be available on the Xataface website? The reference handbook and the API docs are currently not accessible.

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ADobkin — Wed Sep 28, 2011 3:13 am

Glad to hear you are up and running.

Most documentation is available in the wiki:
http://xataface.com/wiki/

I highly recommended reviewing the entire Getting Started tutorial first, as it covers most of the bases:
http://www.xataface.com/documentation/t … ng_started

Steve mentioned recently in another forum post (which I can’t find at the moment) that he is working on a new version of the API docs. In the meantime, I find that the code is pretty well documented already, so I just grep it or search the forum, wiki, etc. when I have an API-related question.