Error connecting mysql on Ubuntu

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I was deploying a Rails application with mysql on Ubuntu, when I run rake db:migrate, I got the error Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock'.

By the way, I installed mysql by apt-get.

Fizz · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-10 08:06:04Z

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I got the answer on this page http://www.davideisinger.com/article/getting-started-with-ubuntu

This last step is just for Ruby on Rails. For whatever reason, Ubuntu puts the mysql.sock file in a different place than most Linux distros, confusing Rails. In order to point it to the correct place, create the following symlink:

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

because your default database.yml in your application wrote this socket: /tmp/mysql.sock

answered Apr 10, 2013 at 8:06

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