CakePHP Database connection “Mysql” is missing, or could not be created

Question

There have been several other posts about this, but none of the answers seemed to work for me.

When I navigate to the CakePHP page on my local machine, there is one

Answer 1

I have had this problem since upgrading to OSX Yosemite and inserting following line did the trick for me:

 'unix_socket' => '/tmp/mysql.sock'