Question

I have created a new server to host a rails 3.2 app with a mysql server hosted on the same server.

I keep getting ‘xxxxx-xxxxx.linode.com’ is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server (Mysql2::Error)

I have checked over all the config and it seems correct. I can access the mysql server using the mysql command, sequal pro and also was able to do a rake db:migrate like this:

bundle exec rake db:migrate RAILS_EV=production

I am using passenger and this is my database.yml

 production:
  adapter: mysql2
  encoding: utf8
  reconnect: false
  database: nst_production
  pool: 5
  host: localhost
  username: root
  password: password
  timeout: 5000

Any ideas ?

Answer 1

You better try to connect via socket.

production:
  adapter: mysql2
  encoding: utf8
  reconnect: false
  database: nst_production
  pool: 5
  socket:  /tmp/mysql.sock 
  username: root
  password: password
  timeout: 5000