Can t connect to local MySQL server through socket tmp mysql sock 2

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I have installed MySQL server and trying to connect to it  but getting the error        Can t connect to local MySQL server through socket   tmp mysql sock   2    I have checked my  tmp directory and there is no mysql sock  I can t find mysql sock anywhere  I read that it might be in        var lib mysql mysql sock   But I checked there as well and there is even no mysql directory  only some postfix thing inside  lib   Could anyone help me with this problem

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You need to follow the directions to install and start the server.

The command varies depending on how you installed MySQL. Try this first:

sudo /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM/MySQLCOM start

If that fails:

cd /usr/local/mysql
sudo ./bin/mysqld_safe
(Enter your password, if necessary)
(Press Control-Z)
bg

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In my case  I don t got tmp folder setting up right  What I end up with these steps   1  cd    2  ln -s private tmp  tmp

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For MAMP  ln -s  Applications MAMP tmp mysql mysql sock  tmp mysql sock   From https   coderwall com p w5kwzw solved-can-t-connect-to-local-mysql-server-through-socket-tmp-mysql-sock  UPDATE  Every time my computer restarts I have to enter this command  so I created a shortcut   Do the following in terminal type      vi    profile   Add  alias      source    profile  alias sockit  sudo ln -s  Applications MAMP tmp mysql mysql sock  tmp mysql sock    Save   In terminal type          to source the  profile config   Now in terminal you can just type     sockit

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First Type this-   brew services start mysql   Then this -   mysql -uroot

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this post helped did it for me  I ll rewrite the steps here  note  i ll be also writing the output of your commands   just so that you know you re on track   first stop the server if running    root servert1      etc init d mysqld stop Stopping MySQL    OK     run an sql dameon on a separate thread   root servert1     mysqld safe --skip-grant-tables  amp       1  13694      root servert1     Starting mysqld daemon with databases from  var lib mysql   open a separate shell window and type   root servert1     mysql -u root  Welcome to the MySQL monitor  Commands end with   or  g   Your MySQL connection id is 1  Server version  5 0 77 Source distribution    Type  help   or   h  for help  Type   c  to clear the buffer    start using mysql   mysql gt  use mysql    Reading table information for completion of table and column names  You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A    Database changed   update the user table manually with your new password  note  feel free to type mysql gt  show tables   just to get a perspective on where you are   NOTE  from MySQL 5 7 passwords are in the authenication string table  so the command is update user set authentication string password  testpass   where user  root    mysql gt  update user set password PASSWORD  testpass   where User  root    Query OK  3 rows affected  0 05 sec   Rows matched  3 Changed  3 Warnings  0   flush privileges  i m not sure what this privileges is all about   but it works   mysql gt  flush privileges    Query OK  0 rows affected  0 04 sec    quit  mysql gt  quit  Bye   stop the server  NOTE  on OS X or macOS  mysql server is located at  usr local mysql support-files    mysql server stop  Shutting down MySQL  130421 09 27 02 mysqld safe mysqld from pid file  usr local var mysql mycomputername local pid ended  SUCCESS    2 -  Done                    mysqld safe --skip-grant-tables   kill the other shell window that has the dameon running  just to make sure   now you are good to go  try it    root servert1      mysql -u root -p Enter password   Welcome to the MySQL monitor   Commands end with   or  g  Your MySQL connection id is 3 Server version  5 6 10 Source distribution  Copyright  c  2000  2013  Oracle and or its affiliates  All rights reserved   Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and or its affiliates  Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners   Type  help   or   h  for help  Type   c  to clear the current input statement   mysql gt     done

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After trying all solutions it worked only for me after specifying the host   mysql -u root -p -h127 0 0 1   when asking for password   Enter password    press enter   and it will work   if everything is ok as above

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Run the following on the command line       mysql server start

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It looks like you need a MySQL server installed  there is install packages on mysql s site  or you can install through macports  I assume from the darwin11 line   I installed mine via ports  and the socket lives in  opt local var run mysql5

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In your mysql config file  which is present in  etc my cnf make the below changes and then restart mysqld dameon process   client  socket  var lib mysql mysql sock   As well check this related thread  Can  39 t connect to local MySQL server through socket   39  tmp mysql sock

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Type in the terminal as follows   mysql server start

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If you are using XAMPP in Mac OS X and have installed MySQL with Homebrew you may have this problem  In XAMPP manager window go to Manage Servers and select MySQL  then click configure and open the configuration file  there you have the socket file path  put the path in your MySQL host config and it should work   It s something like this        client   password     your password port          3306 socket         Applications XAMPP xamppfiles var mysql mysql sock       then  for instance in Django           DATABASES              default                  ENGINE    django db backends mysql                NAME    database name                USER    user                PASSWORD    password                HOST     Applications XAMPP xamppfiles var mysql mysql sock                PORT                             Hope this helps

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I hope this helps somebody  I was getting the same error  but seemingly for a much different reason than other people   I have 2 CentOS machines   I copied my cnf to the new machine  not realizing that I had upgraded the old machine to MySQL 5 6  and the new machine had 5 5 installed  When I commented out the 5 6-only directives  MySQL started as expected   and now I am running the upgrade so I can apply the massively useful innodb buffer pool dump at shutdown and innodb buffer pool load at startup directives   I would suggest trying a bare minimum my cnf  If MySQL starts up  then you ve found the source of your problem

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First  knowing where the data directory was for me was the key   usr local var mysql In here  there was at least one file with extension  err preceded with my local machine name  It had all info i needed to diagnose   I think i screwed up by installing mysql 8 first  My app isn t compatible with it so i had to downgrade back to 5 7  My solution that worked for me was going to   usr local etc my cnf  Find this line if its there  I think its mysql 8 related   mysqlx-bind-address   127 0 0 1    Remove it because in the mysql 5 7 says it doesnt like it in the error log  Also add this line in there if its not there under the bind-address   socket  tmp mysql sock   Go to the  tmp directory and delete any mysql sock files in there  On server start  it will recreate the sock files  Trash out the data directory with mySQL in the stopped state  Mine was   usr local var mysql   This is the same place where the logs are at  From there i ran    gt mysqld --initialize   Then everything started working   this command will give you a random password at the end  Save that password for the next step  Running this to assign my own password    gt mysql secure installation    Both    gt brew services stop mysql 5 7   and   gt mysql server start   are now working  Hope this helps  It s about 3 hours of trial and error

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Try this it worked for me   sudo  usr local mysql support-files mysql server start

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After struggling for hours the only thing which worked was  sudo mysql server start   Then do a secure installation with  mysql secure installation    Then connect to the db via  mysql -uroot -p   Mysql is installed via homebrew and the version is   Server version  5 7 21 Homebrew   Specifying the version might be helpful as the solution may be different based upon the version

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Try to start the MySQL server   mysql server start

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Also  if you got this error and installed mysql via Homebrew  I found that this works  though you need to change  5 6 12  to your own version        usr local Cellar mysql 5 6 12 bin mysql server restart   I just created a file   restartMysql sh in my home directory  with only the line above in it  so that I can just use this whenever MySQL is acting up

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I have faced the same issue  Here is how I have fixed it  Step 1  Remove mysql using command  brew uninstall --force mysql  Step 2  Run command brew doctor which will give you some hint related to your brew packages  Step 3  Cleanup brew packages using command  brew cleanup  Step 4  Move delete previously installed mysql data using command  mv  usr local var mysql   usr local var old mysql  Step 5  Finally install mysql again using command  brew install mysql

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Stoping and starting the mysql server from terminal resolved my issue  Below are the cmds to stop and start the mysql server in MacOs   sudo  usr local mysql support-files mysql server stop sudo  usr local mysql support-files mysql server start   Note  Restarting the services from Mac System preference didn t resolve the issue in my mac   So try to restart from terminal

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For CentOS  the file to init mysql is located here    etc init d mysqld start

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Following command resolved my issue       sudo chown -R  mysql mysql  usr local var mysql  sudo mysql server start

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I have spent lots of time doing this I want to put my django app on my server and when I run python manage py migrate I met this questions  And   I set this ln -s  var run mysqld mysqld sock  tmp mysql sock  It worked finally

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I got the same question after updating OS X Yosemite  well the solution is quite simple  check system preference -  mysql  the status was STOP  Just restart it and it works fine on my mac now

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Following resolved my issue   Check where is your MySQL server is listning to  netstat -nlp If it is listning to TCP then use 127 0 0 1 while connecting to DB instead of  localhost   Check MySQL doc here

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If you re running on a macOS it s just easier to first check go to  System Preferences  and see if MySQL is running or not

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