Tried everything and now stumped
 

Hello everybody, please firstly forgive this possibly being a post already out there.

I have looked through the support forums all day today and have been trying to sort this forum issue out all day also - ive been at this for hours and cannot see what is wrong now. so i need some pointers please.

I have tried to upgrade the forum from 3.x to 5 - finding then all i am offered is the create your own config file (which doesn't accept anything i place in and gives me errors left right and centre when submit anything)

i have also made a new Directory /forums and down a new install there. to attempt to get it running from there but to no avail -
i get this 2: mysqli_real_connect() [function.mysqli-real-connect]: (HY000/2002): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysqld.sock' (2)
when i enter http://www.domain-name.com/forums/core/install/install.php

Any information needed to help this issue can be given i have routed through all my DNS settings and so on triple checked its all in the config files correctly, i have tried to follow various Install/upgrade manuals and yet keep getting the same result!

this is the one i am following at the moment - http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/

Not happy i just spend all this money and i can't even get it the point of installing yet after a whole day of messing around and checking it all over and over and over again.

do i need a fresh database entirely for doing this or something like that? i need to keep my users and counts etc and everything but currently have no forum at all and no progress.
can somebody help me please?:confused::confused: