I can imagine two possible sources for this problem: IPv6 is enabled and localhost does not exist or ::1 Mysql's libmysql is used instead of PHP's libmysql. It happens that the IPv6 problem was the cause for this problem (as you stated later). The 2nd possibility happens a lot when someone installs...

I am having an issue with IIS7 and PHP relating to clients receiving the white screen of death (blank page) after 90 seconds of processing. Standard php processing works fine. The following are set in php.ini: max_execution_time = 180 max_input_time = 180 memory_limit = 128M In the FastCGI configuration...