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

By: PHP and MySQL woes. | wrap content

PHP and MySQL woes. | wrap content — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 04:30:40 +0000

[...] There were some issues with the mysql.sock file. A bit of googling later and I found this link which sorted everything [...]

By: BeverlyJ

BeverlyJ — Tue, 17 May 2011 18:24:11 +0000

This worked GREAT!! Thank you!

By: Stachi

Stachi — Wed, 04 May 2011 13:03:00 +0000

THANK YOU!

If youre using Zend. You may also need:

ln -s /tmp/mysql.sock /usr/local/zend/mysql/tmp/mysql.sock

By: Ann

Ann — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 05:14:59 +0000

what Ben said …
Nothing but nothing else worked, drupal REFUSED, until I relented and did this.
THANK YOU!

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:02:10 +0000

THANK YOU!!!! I spent too many days on trying to figure this out and searching endless blogs.

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.