cacti does not connect to mysql at all - SOLVED

[grlongo]

Hi all,

I can´t get cacti to connect to mysql.
Strange thing is that I am able to connect through "mysql -ucactiuser -pcactipw cacti"

I followed every detail in here:
http://docs.cacti.net/manual:087

And many others tutorials trying to fix this problem:
FATAL: Cannot connect to MySQL server on '127.0.0.1'. Please make sure you have specified a valid MySQL database name in 'include/config.php'

I am using php5.3.3, apache2.2 and mysql5.1.53 and cacti0.8.8
Also this is my cacti config.php

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<?php
$database_type = "mysql";
$database_default = "cacti";
$database_hostname = "127.0.0.1"; //Also I tried "localhost"
$database_username = "cactiuser";
$database_password = "cactipw";
$database_port = "3306";

/* load up old style plugins here */
$plugins = array();
//$plugins[] = 'thold';

/*
   Edit this to point to the default URL of your Cacti install
   ex: if your cacti install as at http://serverip/cacti/ this
   would be set to /cacti/
*/
$url_path = "/cacti/";

/* Default session name - Session name must contain alpha characters */
#$cacti_session_name = "Cacti";
?>

I don´t know what to do any more... in ubuntu the installation was straight foward but in windows cacti does not connect to mysql at all.

[grlongo]

Mates,

Problem solved by installing this package of cacti.

http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?t=14946

This was not the solution for what it seens to be a bug. But worked anyway.
I am having now problems with the graphs but I´ll open a new post.

Thanks.

[BSOD2600]

There is an issue with php 5.3 and cacti. the installer still uses 5.2.x, which is why it worked.