Symfony 2 SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Connection refused Error

Question

I get an error like database operations using Symfony2.

SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Connection refused

parameters.yml

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Answer 1

After seeing the answers and playing around with this myself I figured out the problem:

The default installation of LAMPP, MAMPP has the following in the my.cnf file:

skip-networking

This means that mysql will not listen on TCP/IP so you can tell doctrine to try any port in the 64K and it won't do any good until you comment out the directive above and get mysql to listen to TCP/IP ports.

Please ensure you restart LAMPP, MAMPP or reload mysql after commenting out the skip-networking directive.