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

Building on the answer from @dcarrith ...

Instead of editing the config files, I created an alias in the location that PHP is looking that connects to the real mysql.sock. (source)

Just run these two commands (no restart needed):

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