Laravel 4 Tips & Troubleshooting

L4-101

**1.** Artisan migrate or db:seed error because of false mysql.sock config 

**Problem:**
 
Command `artisan migrate` or `artisan db:seed` have this error message

    [PDOException] SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] No such file or directory

**Solution:**

Type this command 
 
    php -i | grep pdo
    
Will output like this

    pdo_mysql.default_socket => /tmp/mysql.sock => /tmp/mysql.sock

check in `/etc/my.cnf` the sock file is actually in
    
    /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock.

So,edit php.ini and set the value for `pdo_mysql.default_socket` to

    pdo_mysql.default_socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock


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