Comments on: Wordpress “error establishing a database connection” on OS X Leopard

By: thiudis

thiudis — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:05:55 +0000

Thanks – worked great!

By: Michael Grech

Michael Grech — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:16:34 +0000

Good work, this works on Snow Leopard as well.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 07:51:31 +0000

Absolutely amazing, this one frustrated me for a long time. One thing to note is that I have found multiple possible causes for this. For future people coming here, to diagnose whether this is the issue causing the problem it is useful to add:

echo(mysql_error());

to the wp-db.php file within the wp-includes directory just before the html for the error is printed. If it mentions socks in the output error message on refresh, you can know this is the problem. cheers!

By: Leslie Wong

Leslie Wong — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:21:18 +0000

Thanks for this tip. It worked for me in Tiger, 10.4.11 on a PowerBook G4 12″.

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Wordpress on OS X Tiger - “error establishing a database connection” — Sat, 31 May 2008 18:57:04 +0000

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By: bimble

bimble — Fri, 16 May 2008 07:54:55 +0000

Brilliant, worked perfectly. and even better, you were the first hit in google

By: L. S.

L. S. — Fri, 02 May 2008 16:47:47 +0000

Yes, that works, but don’t chmod 777; you end up giving anyone the right to edit that file and possibly hack parts of your system. Just set the “mysql socket” line mentioned. There shouldn’t even be a “7″ anywhere in those permissions.

By: L. S.

L. S. — Fri, 02 May 2008 16:44:29 +0000

Yes, that works, but don’t chmod 777; you end up giving anyone the right to edit that file and possibly hack parts of your system. Just set the “mysql socket” line mentioned.

By: :(

:( — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:14:13 +0000

What does that mean? Lol.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:23:32 +0000

@Wordpress Themes, It doesn’t matter if you’re running a Mac or a PC or anything else for that matter, as long as you have the correct versions of PHP and MySQL. See http://wordpress.org/about/requirements/ for more info.