"Can't find mysqld.sock: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '\/var\/run\/mysqld\/mysqld.sock' (2 "No such file or directory")"

Question

I've just registered to Stack Overflow because I really can't get out of this problem since 2 days ago. I use Xampp.<\/h2>

So, I'm following this Laravel tutorial<\/a> and when from the terminal I type in the project directory or every elsewhere directory mysql<\/em><\/strong> or mysql -uroot -p<\/em><\/strong> it gives me this error:

Answer 1

I got it! So, first I removed every trace of MariaDB with these commands:

sudo service mysql stop
sudo apt-get --purge remove "mysql*
sudo rm -rf /etc/mysql/ 

Answer 2

When you use localhost to connect to MySQL, the operating system uses the socket connector. However, if you use the 127.0.0.1 IP address, the operating system will use the TCP/IP connector. So, a possible solution when you're having issues with the socket connector is trying to establish the connection using TCP/IP by specifying the 127.0.0.1 IP address instead of localhost .