MySQL Can Connect Remotely but not Locally

Question

This is a weird problem and I\'m not sure what\'s going on. I installed MySQL on a linux box I have running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. I can access mysql via SSH mysql -p

Answer 1

You need to set the socketPath

mysql = require('mysql');
var connection = mysql.createConnection({
    host     : 'localhost',
    user     : 'root',
    password : 'password',
    socketPath  : '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock',

});