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Cannot access BASE home page, problem connecting to DB

Posted by cleetus_vandamme on March 15, 2005 08:15:04

I am new to snort and linux and I have to set it up for a honeynet project I am doing in college.

For my installation I am using Fedora core 3, BASE, mySQL,Apache and snort 2.3.2.

However when I open access the BASE home page I get the following error

Error (p)connecting to DB : snort@localhost

Check the DB connection variables in base_conf.php

= $alert_dbname : MySQL database name where the alerts are stored
= $alert_host : host where the database is stored
= $alert_port : port where the database is stored
= $alert_user : username into the database
= $alert_password : password for the username

Database ERROR:Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (13)

I have checked these variables and the corresponding variables in the snort.conf file. There is no problem there. Is it a problem with permissions for the user accessing the DB.Appreciate any input.

Posted by chris on March 18, 2005 12:55:58

hi, I'm not sure about the Fedora version of mysql, but in the Win32 version, you have to set the dbase user password with the OLD_Password variable, to be able to connect to the mysql database...
perhaps that might be something to check...
i.e
set password for 'BASEuser'@'mysqlhost' = OLD_PASSWORD('BASEUserpass')