SQL Error: 0, SQLState: 08S01 Communications link failure

Question

I am getting this error (not so frequently):

2013-05-08 16:44:35,786  WARN (JDBCExceptionReporter.java:100) [org.hibernate.util.JDBCExceptionReporter, logExc         


        

Answer 1

Check your server config file /etc/mysql/my.cnf - verify bind_address is not set to 127.0.0.1. Set it to 0.0.0.0 or comment it out then restart server with:

sudo service mysql restart