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

Just to add to these answers, In my case I had no local mySQL server, it was running inside a docker container. So the socket file does not exist and will not be accessible for the "mysql" client.

The sock file gets created by mysqld and mysql uses this to communicate with it. However if your mySql server is not running local, it does not require the sock file.

By specifying a host name/ip the sock file is not required e.g.

mysql --host=127.0.0.1 --port=3306 --user=xyz --password=xyz

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

Try to connect using "127.0.0.1" instead "localhost".