MySQL mysqld.sock Error

August 3, 2008

I was getting this error tonight when trying to get PHP and MySQL to work on OSX.

Warning: mysql_pconnect() [function.mysql-pconnect]: Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/mysql/mysql.sock’ (2)

To fix this problem, I had to add the following line to my PHP code.

ini_set(’mysql.default_socket’, ‘/tmp/mysql.sock’);

Now I have a new set of errors to contend with…

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