Installing WordPress on OS X Tiger and getting the ambiguous ”error establishing a database connection” error? Fixing this problem was easy for me, once I knew what to do.
The problem is with your php.ini file. The default socket value is initially blank:
mysql.default_socket =
To get WordPress to work, you need to set a default socket. Values that have worked in some situations include:
mysql.default_socket = /private/tmp/mysql.sock mysql.default_socket = /tmp/mysql.sock
In my particular situation (default MySQL and Apache installs on Tiger), I had to use the following socket:
mysql.default_socket = /opt/local/var/run/mysql5/mysqld.sock
For info on locating and modifying your php.ini file, see the Bust Out Solutions blog.
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