Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket homebrew

Question

I recently tried installing MySQL with homebrew (brew install mysql) and when I try to run it I get the following error:

ERROR 2002 (HY00

Answer 1

When you got the server running via

mysql.server start

you should see the socket in /tmp/mysql.sock. However, the system seems to expect it in /var/mysql/mysql.sock. To fix this, you have to create a symlink in /var/mysql:

sudo mkdir /var/mysql

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

This solved it for me. Now my phpMyAdmin works happily with localhost and 127.0.0.1.

Credit goes to Henry