无法连接到“ 127.0.0.1”上的MySQL服务器（10061）

Question

I have a Django application whose database is in SQLite. I'm trying to migrate to MySQL. I created a dump file of my existing database using manage.py dumpdata > datadump.json

I updated my Database Settings as follows

'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql',
        'NAME': 'appname_db',
        'USER': 'root',
        'PASSWORD': 'root',
        'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
        'PORT': '3306',
    }

But I'm getting the Can't connect to MySQL server on '127.0.0.1' (10061) error now.

Answer 1

You have to configure your MySQL server in order to use MySQL database. SQLite is file based database which works out of the box.