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Question

I\'m trying to connect to my MySQL DB with the Terminal on my Apple (With PHP).

Yesterday it worked fine, and now I suddenly get the error in the title.

The

Answer 1

Since your might use MAMP, either change your Port to the default 3306 or use 127.0.0.1 in the database.php

$db['default'] = array(
    'dsn'   => '',
    'hostname' => 'localhost',// leave it for port 3306
    'username' => 'yourUserhere',
    'password' => 'yourPassword',
    'database' => 'yourDatabase',
    'dbdriver' => 'mysqli',
    'dbprefix' => '',
    'pconnect' => FALSE,
    'db_debug' => (ENVIRONMENT !== 'production'),
    'cache_on' => FALSE,
    'cachedir' => '',
    'char_set' => 'utf8',
    'dbcollat' => 'utf8_general_ci',
    'swap_pre' => '',
    'encrypt' => FALSE,
    'compress' => FALSE,
    'stricton' => FALSE,
    'failover' => array(),
    'save_queries' => TRUE
);

Or with the default settings:

$db['default'] = array(
        'dsn'   => '',
        'hostname' => '127.0.0.1:8889',// leave it for port 8889
        'username' => 'yourUserhere',
        'password' => 'yourPassword',
        'database' => 'yourDatabase',
        'dbdriver' => 'mysqli',
        'dbprefix' => '',
        'pconnect' => FALSE,
        'db_debug' => (ENVIRONMENT !== 'production'),
        'cache_on' => FALSE,
        'cachedir' => '',
        'char_set' => 'utf8',
        'dbcollat' => 'utf8_general_ci',
        'swap_pre' => '',
        'encrypt' => FALSE,
        'compress' => FALSE,
        'stricton' => FALSE,
        'failover' => array(),
        'save_queries' => TRUE
    );