Katie Nelson

12/7/2011

Mysql not found by PHP

In the middle of a Drupal install on my localhost I received the following error

No such file or directory (trying to connect via unix:///var/mysql/mysql.sock) i…

2AM and in need of a quick fix I just created an alias in the location PHP was looking for mysql.

mkdir /var/mysql
ln -s /tmp/mysql.sock /var/mysql/mysql.sock