I installed XAMPP on my Mac (Snow Leopard) and installed Django. How do I tell Django to use this and when I fire up python manage.py runserver I get this error:
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_mysql_exceptions.OperationalError: (2002, "Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/opt/local/var/run/mysql5/mysqld.sock' (2)")
How do I tell Django to use this instead?
/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/var/mysql/mysql.sock
Put that in the HOST entry for the database in the settings.
simple solution is that just install Django Stack for Xampp. Not need to configure any thing every thing is configured already
https://wiki.bitnami.com/Infrastructure_Stacks/BitNami_Django_Stack
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6051043/how-to-get-django-to-work-with-mysql-in-xampp