While I try to keep things simple, sometimes eliminating options
and explanations comes back to haunt me. After posting how to open a Fedora firewall port for a LAMP
stack, somebody got trapped by my instructions for installing MySQL on
Fedora. They got stuck because they had the following setting
in their /etc/my.cnf
file:
bind-address=localhost.localdomain |
I’d suggested using that bind-address
value for a
DHCP VMware Fedora installation in Step #7. I was trying to
create an example for an isolated testing instance, which is why
I set the bind-address
to a
localhost.localdomain
value. They raised the
following error when they …