SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] No such file or directory [duplicate]

Answer 1

i fixed it like this.Just add a line. in laravel project APP=>Config=>database.php update the
Connections=>mysql after strict add below line

'unix_socket' => "/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/var/mysql/mysql.sock"

sample:-

'mysql' => [
            'driver'    => 'mysql',
            'host'      => env('DB_HOST', 'localhost'),
            'database'  => env('DB_DATABASE', 'forge'),
            'username'  => env('DB_USERNAME', 'forge'),
            'password'  => env('DB_PASSWORD', ''),
            'charset'   => 'utf8',
            'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
            'prefix'    => '',
            'strict'    => false,
            'unix_socket' => "/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/var/mysql/mysql.sock"
        ],

Answer 2

I had a similar error. I am using MAMP and what solved my issue was:

1. creating a symbolic link in: /var/mysql (create the directory if it does not exist)
2. cd /var/mysql && sudo ln -s /Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock

Answer 3

This happened to me out of nowhere, my app (Laravel) was working fine yesterday and dropped today with this error (SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] No such file or directory).

After checking that my config file had not been not corrupted, I connected to my control panel (I am using a VPS) and restarted MySQL server. That did the trick, everything is back online.

Answer 4

Found the solution for Ampps user:
I had the same issue and I did a lot of searches but couldn't solve the issue until I looked at my MySql config file. In my config file socket was in line 21 and the path was
"/Applications/AMPPS/var/mysql.sock"

In Ampps application click on MySql tab and then click on configuration button.

You can also find the config file in "/Applications/AMPPS/mysql/etc" folder

So simply I added
'unix_socket' => '/Applications/AMPPS/var/mysql.sock',
to my database.php in mysql array and it's worked for me.
After host line. I have tested with localhost and 127.0.0.1 and both worked
Hopefully it's working for you too.

Answer 5

I found PHP on CentOS 6 built with mysql.default_socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock yet for some reason pdo_mysql.default_socket=/tmp/mysql.sock, which doesn't exist. Building it using --with-mysql-sock=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock should force both to be the same.

Alternatively edit php.ini to contain:

pdo_mysql.default_socket="/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock"

...or your correct socket location, of course.

Answer 6

For users which are looking for a solution on XAMPP (Tested and worked on Mac OS X),

Open terminal and create a symbolic link :

sudo mkdir /var/mysql
cd /var/mysql
sudo ln -s /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/var/mysql/mysql.sock