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.
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Another solution is to fix the socket location in the php.ini configuration file like this:
pdo_mysql.default_socket=/tmp/mysql.sock
Of course, the symlink works too, so its a matter of preference which one you change.
For some reason mysql on OS X gets the locations of the required socket file a bit wrong, but thankfully the solution is as simple as setting up a symbolic link.
You may have a socket (appearing as a zero length file) as /tmp/mysql.sock
or /var/mysql/mysql.sock
, but one or more apps is looking in the other location for it. Find out with this command:
ls -l /tmp/mysql.sock /var/mysql/mysql.sock
Rather than move the socket, edit config files, and have to remember to keep edited files local and away from servers where the paths are correct, simply create a symbolic link so your Mac finds the required socket, even when it's looking in the wrong place!
If you have /tmp/mysql.sock
but no /var/mysql/mysql.sock
then...
cd /var
sudo mkdir mysql
sudo chmod 755 mysql
cd mysql
sudo ln -s /tmp/mysql.sock mysql.sock
If you have /var/mysql/mysql.sock
but no /tmp/mysql.sock
then...
cd /tmp
ln -s /var/mysql/mysql.sock mysql.sock
You will need permissions to create the directory and link, so just prefix the commands above with sudo if necessary.
I am on XAMPP on Mac OS X, and Brian Lowe's solution above worked with a slight modification.
The mysql.sock file is actually in "/Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/var/mysql/" folder. So had to link it up both in /tmp and /var/mysql. I haven't checked which one is used by PHP command line, but this did the fix, so I am happy :-)
sudo su
ln -s /Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/var/mysql/mysql.sock /tmp/mysql.sock
mkdir /var/mysql
ln -s /Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/var/mysql/mysql.sock /var/mysql/mysql.sock
I also had this error, but could only fix it through the suggestion here.
To summarize, use:
127.0.0.1
Instead of:
localhost
The reason is that "localhost" is a special name for the MySQL driver making it use the UNIX socket to connect to MySQL instead of the a TCP socket.
I got the same errors. Mysql was running as a standalone application before I started phpMyAdmin.
I just stopped mysql Then sudo /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/xampp stop sudo /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/xampp start
It worked fine