Question

My socket file is located here:

/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

When I do:

rake thinking_sphinx:start

I get:

rake aborted!
Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)

I want to tell thinking_sphinx where my socket file is. How is this possible? This issue appeared after performing a hard reboot of my slice on Slicehost.

Answer 1

EDITED to be (hopefully) clearer:

you can specify the mysql socket to be used in sphinx search’s configuration file, sphinx.conf, via sql_sock:

sql_sock = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

(note that it depends on the sql_host setting whether this value will actually be used)

you can also use thinking_sphinx’ configuration file, RAILS_ROOT/config/sphinx.yml, to set (overwrite) these values:

sql_sock: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock