MySQL Can't Connect To Local MySQL Server Through Socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'

Posted By Weston Ganger

I was getting the following error with mysql and my rails app.

To fix it we just create a symlink.


ln -s /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock /tmp/mysql.sock

That will fix it until you restart your system because the /tmp folder is temporary.

To create this link each time you restart, I add it to the end of my ~/.profile


# ~/.profile - Add this line to the end
ln -s /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock /tmp/mysql.sock