Comments on: PHP on OSX: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/mysql/mysql.sock'

By: isaiah Mobit

isaiah Mobit — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 07:30:23 +0000

Thanks – Saved Me a lot of head ache !

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 19 May 2010 16:35:06 +0000

Thank you, I almost went to MAMP before this, but I like doing installs manually, you saved me, thanks.

By: Joe Carey

Joe Carey — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:09:44 +0000

Thank you, thank you, thank you … !

By: Benjamin Good

Benjamin Good — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:58:21 +0000

Thank you so much! I had no idea where to start on this one, you + google = relief.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:42:37 +0000

hey Paul, if php doesn’t locate a php.ini file on the system then it will just use the defaults that were set at compile time. you can tell by creating a phpinfo page – it will not show any loaded php.ini file.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:19:40 +0000

Thanks. You saved me a lot of time. I still find it odd that copying /etc/php.ini.default to /etc/php.ini and restarting Apache causes the connection error. I wonder if PHP is actually reading some file besides /etc/php.ini.default if it doesn’t find /etc/php.ini.

By: Installing LAMP stack on OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard | VerySimple, Inc.

Installing LAMP stack on OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard | VerySimple, Inc. — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:51:31 +0000

[...] the MySQL installer places the mysql.sock file in a non-standard place and so you have to either create a link or alter your php.ini file before PHP will be able to talk to MySQL. (If you get “Can’t connect to local MySQL [...]

By: Ben Lieb

Ben Lieb — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:20:44 +0000

Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaank You