I am trying to setup moodle and running into a connection problem. See the config below:
<?php // Moodle configuration file
unset($CFG);
global $CFG;
$CFG = new stdClass();
$CFG->dbtype = 'mysqli';
$CFG->dblibrary = 'native';
$CFG->dbhost = 'localhost';
$CFG->dbname = 'gs_vle';
$CFG->dbuser = 'root';
$CFG->dbpass = 'root';
$CFG->prefix = 'mdl_';
$CFG->dboptions = array (
'dbpersist' => 0,
'dbport' => '',
'dbsocket' => '',
);
$CFG->wwwroot = 'http://localhost/~ryanme/work/vle/';
$CFG->dataroot = '/Users/ryanme/sites/work/moodledata';
$CFG->admin = 'admin';
$CFG->directorypermissions = 0777;
require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . '/lib/setup.php');
I am getting a database connection error. See the error below:
Error: Database connection failed
It is possible that the database is overloaded or otherwise not running properly.
The site administrator should also check that the database details have been correctly specified in config.php
Warning: mysqli::mysqli(): (HY000/2002): No such file or directory in /Users/ryanme/Sites/work/vle/lib/dml/mysqli_native_moodle_database.php on line 79
Things I have done
show databases;
. This works fine.What can I do to figure out what is causing this database connection error?
After more investigation. I found that this was due to "mysql on OS X gets the locations of the required sock file a bit wrong". Once I created the sym links required for the mysql sock file everything worked.
See linked issue for details.
I had had the same problem. To solve this issue I put the name of the server instead localhost
$CFG->dbhost = '<name-of-the-server>'
;