Question

I am running a django based web application with apache. I am able to connecto to mysql from python and linux shell but, when i run the server i am getting the following error. Where am i doing wrong?

OperationalError at /

(2002, "Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)")

Request Method:     GET
Request URL:    http://dev.ls.co.uk/
Django Version:     1.3
Exception Type:     OperationalError
Exception Value:    

(2002, "Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock'   (2)")

Exception Location:     build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/MySQLdb/connections.py in __init__, line 187
Python Executable:  /usr/bin/python
Python Version:     2.4.3

Answer 1

According to this thread on mysql.com:

There are two things that could go wrong here:

1. You don’t have permissions to access the directory /var/lib/mysql/whatever.sock because mysql is the owner of the folder
   or
2. /path/whatever.sock doesn’t exist.

First, you should know what user apache runs as: try top command to find out the user. Then, use id thatusername command to figure what group it is in.

Then, you can read an article about debugging this kind of problem.