ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)

Hi @Aleksandar Simovic ,

Thanks for posting this question in Microsoft Q&A platform.

As I understand the question, you are trying to access mysql through web ssh in Linux php app service, but getting this error:

ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)

Could you please try modifying bind-address to localhost and restart, if this helps.

sudo gksu gedit /etc/mysql/my.cnf  

Modify:

bind-address = 127.0.0.1
to:

bind-address = localhost

and restart:

sudo /etc/init.d/mysql restart

Another option is if your file my.cnf (usually in the /etc/mysql/ folder) is correctly configured with:

socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock  

You can check if mysql is running with the following command:

mysqladmin -u root -p status  

Try changing your permission to mysql folder. If you are working locally, you can try:

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

Hope this will help. Please let us know if any further queries.

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