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I can’t establish MySQL connection and get this error: “Warning: mysql_connect(): Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock’ (2) ?

Posted on February 11, 2009 by admin in Database Management

Answer: You cannot make connection through socket, please use correct MySQL settings to establish connection (please refer to this post about database settings).


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