database apps that ignore sockets? [was: Solution: mysqld fails to run, can't create/find mysql.sock]

[Matthew Seaman]

On 15/01/2012 17:50, Paul Beard wrote:
> The app configurations are not this granular: hostname and port are
> configured but there is nothing that makes clear that IF you specify
> localhost, you WILL BE using a domain socket which MUST BE
> /tmp/mysql.sock and IF you move it or your distribution prefers some
> other location you MAY NOT use localhost as you are now using a TCP
> socket which shouldn't require a hostname but because of the way the
> app is written, it does.

You can specify an alternate socket location in your connection
parameters.  For the command line client, it is:

   mysql -S /var/run/mysql/sock

This doesn't help if you say 'mysql -h localhost' and get diverted to
use the default socket though -- in that case you can have a .my.cnf
file containing (inter-alia)

[client]
   socket = /var/run/mysql/sock

For the various language APIs, you generally need to specify a DSN
string -- usually this looks something like

   mysql:database=$database;host=$hostname;port=$port

but for a socket connection you could say instead:

   mysql:database=$database;mysql_socket=/var/run/mysql/sock

... assuming that whoever wrote the application you're using made it
sufficiently flexible as to be able to accept something like that.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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