Connecting Google Cloud SQL with Wordpress on Google Compute Engine

Question

I\'ve been running a successful Wordpress install on Google Compute Engine with Nginx, Php-fpm and Mysql.

I noticed you can also run Wordpress on App Engine with a Cloud

Answer 1

No. There is no need to connect to fancy socket names, you need to set up Wordpress as a usual MySQL client, just keep in mind that you need to pre-authorize Compute Engine instance to access your Cloud SQL instance.