Can't connect to MySQL with Sequelize

Question

I consistently get a SequelizeConnectionRefusedError when trying to connect to a MySQL database on my server.

The login credentials are correct, the por

Answer 1

I tried to connect to the database directly with the MySQL module as well, but that gave me the same error. When looking for solutions to the same problem, but related to the MySQL module rather than Sequelize, I found this: connect ECONNREFUSED - node js , sql.

What I needed was to supply the mysql module with a socketPath key. Here's how I changed my code to make it work:

var sequelize = new Sequelize("database", username, password, {
    host: "localhost",
    dialect: "mysql",
    logging: function () {},
    pool: {
        max: 5,
        min: 0,
        idle: 10000
    },
    dialectOptions: {
        socketPath: "/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock"
    },
    define: {
        paranoid: true
    }
});