MySQL Can Connect Remotely but not Locally

Question

This is a weird problem and I\'m not sure what\'s going on. I installed MySQL on a linux box I have running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. I can access mysql via SSH mysql -p

Answer 1

Manually defining the socket fixed this problem for me.

var client = mysql.createClient({
    user: '(your user here)',
    password: '(your password here)',
    host: '127.0.0.1',
    port: '3306',
    _socket: '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock',
});