Was könnte die Ursache für die Fehlermeldung "Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock'" sein?

The error "Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock'" typically occurs when the MySQL server is not running or the socket file path is incorrect. To solve this issue, you can check if the MySQL server is running and if the socket file path is correct in your PHP configuration file. 

// PHP code snippet to connect to MySQL server with correct socket file path
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "username";
$password = "password";
$dbname = "database";
$socket = "/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock"; // Update this path to the correct socket file path

// Create connection
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname, null, $socket);

// Check connection
if ($conn->connect_error) {
    die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
} else {
    echo "Connected successfully";
}

Keywords

PHP MySQL socket connection error troubleshooting

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