PDOException SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] No such file or directory

Question

I believe that I\'ve successfully deployed my (very basic) site to fortrabbit, but as soon as I connect to SSH to run some commands (such as php artisan migrate

Answer 1

I encountered the [PDOException] SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] No such file or directory error for a different reason. I had just finished building a brand new LAMP stack on Ubuntu 12.04 with Apache 2.4.7, PHP v5.5.10 and MySQL 5.6.16. I moved my sites back over and fired them up. But, I couldn't load my Laravel 4.2.x based site because of the [PDOException] above. So, I checked php -i | grep pdo and noticed this line:

pdo_mysql.default_socket => /tmp/mysql.sock => /tmp/mysql.sock

But, in my /etc/my.cnf the sock file is actually in /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock.

So, I opened up my php.ini and set the value for pdo_mysql.default_socket:

pdo_mysql.default_socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

Then, I restarted apache and checked php -i | grep pdo:

pdo_mysql.default_socket => /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock => /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

That fixed it for me.