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

As the first and good answer says, MySQL isn't listening to your local TCP/IP sockets.

Connect your mysql.Client module using:

client.port = '/tmp/mysql.sock';

and fill in wherever your mysql socket file is located. If you can't find this, consider using this heavy but success-guaranteed system-wide search

cd / ; find * | grep mysql.sock