I am using PyMySQL to connect to a database running on localhost. I can access the database just fine using the username/password combiunation in both the command line and adminer so the database does not appear to be the probem here.
My code is as follow. However, when using the host="127.0.0.1" options, I get an OperationalError and an Errno 111. Using the same code, but connecting via the socket Mariadb runs on is fine.
import pymysql.cursors
from pprint import pprint
# This causes an OperationalError: (pymysql.err.OperationalError) (2003, "Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' ([Errno 111] Connection refused)")
# connection = pymysql.connect(
# host="127.0.0.1",
# port=3306,
# user="root",
# password="S3kr37",
# db="my_test",
# )
# This works.
connection = pymysql.connect(
user="root",
password="S3kr37",
db="my_test",
unix_socket="/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock"
)
try:
with connection.cursor() as cursor:
sql = "select * from MySuperTable"
cursor.execute(sql)
results = cursor.fetchall()
pprint(results)
finally:
connection.close()
What am I doing wrong?
PS: Note that this question has the same problem but the solution offered is the socket. That is no good enough: I want to know why I cannot use the hostname as the documentation suggests.
Errorcode 2003 (CR_CONN_HOST_ERROR) is returned by the client library, in case the client wasn't able to establish a tcp connection to the server.
First you should check, if you can connect via telnet or mysql command line client to your server. If not, check the server configuration file: