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'm running on MAMP Pro and had this similar problem when trying to migrate (create db tables). Tried a few of these mentioned suggestions as well but didn't do it for me.

So, simply (after an hour googling), I added two things to the /config/database.php.

'port' => '1234',
'unix_socket' => '/path/to/my/socket/mysqld.sock'

Works fine now!