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Moving a SIte from Drupal to Raw PHP ... Error: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)

I don't understand this the error,

Error: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)

I am not familiar with drupal or any frameworks. Please advice me about this error and if I want to host my raw php site which I created in local WAMP server and connect to the database through, ...

#Database Connection 
$dbc = mysqli_connect('localhost','****user', '***pw', '***db') OR die('Error: '.mysqli_connect_error());

what should I do?

Solution

  • Check whether mysql is running with the following command:

    mysqladmin -u root -p status

    And if not try changing your permission to mysql folder. If you are working locally, you can try:

    sudo chmod -R 755 /var/lib/mysql/

    Reference Connect to Server