django mysql数据库连接协议

Question

How can I specify connection protocol in db OPTIONS? If I use:

'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql',
 ...
'OPTIONS': {
        'protocol': 'TPC',
    }, 

error is 'protocol' is an invalid keyword argument for this function

I'm trying to set OPTIONS as on Django docs and here is MySQL reference It is because I want to establish connection to remote db with ssh tunnel.

Answer 1

changing

'HOST': 'localhost',

to

'HOST': '127.0.0.1',

fix the problem. Using IP as host value driver is forced to use TPC protocol. In the case of localhost it use local file socket which won't work through the tunnel.