Hey Kevin,
Thanks for your correct reply, I had this problem also but after changing
host from "localhost" to "127.0.0.1" problem solved, But why? what's the
different between 'localhost' and '127.0.0.1'?
On Wednesday, February 4, 2009 9:15:32 PM UTC+3:30, Kevin Audleman wrote:
>
> I found the solution in the archives: I changed DATABASE_HOST to
> 127.0.0.1 from ''
>
> Kevin
>
> On Feb 4, 9:41 am, Kevin Audleman wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I am running through the tutorial and setting up my first django
> > project. Quite exciting! However I have run into trouble connecting to
> > MySQL. My settings.py file looks like this:
> >
> > DATABASE_ENGINE = 'mysql' # 'postgresql_psycopg2',
> > 'postgresql', 'mysql', 'sqlite3' or 'oracle'.
> > DATABASE_NAME = 'test' # Or path to database file if using
> > sqlite3.
> > DATABASE_USER = 'root' # Not used with sqlite3.
> > DATABASE_PASSWORD = '' # Not used with sqlite3.
> > DATABASE_HOST = '' # Set to empty string for localhost.
> > Not used with sqlite3.
> > DATABASE_PORT = '' # Set to empty string for default. Not
> > used with sqlite3.
> >
> > Yes, the username is 'root' and there is no password. This is on my
> > local machine (OS X 10.5) so it doesn't matter.
> >
> > When I run...
> >
> > $ python manage.py syncdb
> >
> > I get the following...
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > File "manage.py", line 11, in
> > execute_manager(settings)
> > File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/core/management/
> > __init__.py", line 340, in execute_manager
> > utility.execute()
> > File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/core/management/
> > __init__.py", line 295, in execute
> > self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
> > File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/core/management/
> > base.py", line 192, in run_from_argv
> > self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__)
> > File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/core/management/
> > base.py", line 218, in execute
> > self.validate()
> > File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/core/management/
> > base.py", line 246, in validate
> > num_errors = get_validation_errors(s, app)
> > File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/core/management/
> > validation.py", line 65, in get_validation_errors
> > connection.validation.validate_field(e, opts, f)
> > File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/db/backends/mysql/
> > validation.py", line 8, in validate_field
> > db_version = connection.get_server_version()
> > File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/db/backends/mysql/
> > base.py", line 277, in get_server_version
> > self.cursor()
> > File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/db/backends/
> > __init__.py", line 56, in cursor
> > cursor = self._cursor(settings)
> > File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/db/backends/mysql/
> > base.py", line 262, in _cursor
> > self.connection = Database.connect(**kwargs)
> > File "/Users/audleman/django_projects/pollster/__init__.py", line
> > 74, in Connect
> >
> > File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/MySQL_python-1.2.2-py2.5-
> > macosx-10.5-i386.egg/MySQLdb/connections.py", line 170, in __init__
> > _mysql_exceptions.OperationalError: (2002, "Can't connect to local
> > MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)")
> >
> > I'm not exactly sure what this socket is or why django can't find it.
> > One thought is that I installed LAMP on my machine using XAMPP, which
> > puts everything in the /Applications/xampp directory. Poking around, I
> > managed to find a mysql.sock file here:
> >
> > /Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/var/mysql/mysql.sock
> >
> > Assuming this is the correct socket, how do I tell django where to
> > find it?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Kevin
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