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

Just to help Ubuntu users out: I had the same error in my ubuntu 13.10 machine with the newest xampp downlaoded directly from apachefriends. Tried most of the stuff in every post I could find about this error, but not the mac-specific stuff. In the end, the fix happened to be the same as the elected answer here:

Find the socket that mysqld creates for programs to connect to:

user@host /opt$ find . -name mysql.sock
/opt/lampp/var/mysql/mysql.sock

add it to your cakePHP database configuration file (cakePHP)/app/Config/database.php

'unix_socket' => '/opt/lampp/var/mysql/mysql.sock'

To me, this finally resulted in my cake commands being able to be executed without the "Error: Database connection "Mysql" is missing, or could not be created.".