mysqli_connect(): (HY000/2002): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket

Question

I need help bad...I got this error trying to display a database using php:

mysqli_connect(): (HY000/2002): Can\'t connect to local MySQL server thro

Answer 1

JUST FOUND A SOLUTION!

I just replaced localhost with 127.0.0.1.

Oddly enough, I think I've tried this before. Maybe messing around with the config and retrying it got it working now.