[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 134982] FILEOPEN Base Cannot connect to mysql

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134982

--- Comment #5 from Alex Thurgood <iplaw67 at tuta.io> ---
(In reply to Alex Thurgood from comment #4)
> There you have your answer :
> 
> - Server : Localhost via UNIX socket
> 
> socket = /opt/lampp/var/mysql/mysql.sock
> 
> Your server is only providing the Unix socket connection.
> 
> The fact that you can access it via your web browser using 127.0.0.1 or
> localhost is down to the way your phpmyadmin instance is configured, which
> redirects the call to the Unix socket.
> 
> 
> The msyql connection setup wizard used to allow you to specify the path to
> the Unix socket (this is not the same as the URL using an IP address), but I
> believe that this is now hardcoded to some usual default of a normally
> installed Linux mysql/MariaDB server, i.e. /var/local/tmp/ or some such
> directory, so:
> 
> - either you create a symbolic link between your actual mysql Unix socket
> and the place where LO expects it to be (with appropriate privileges), or
> you reconfigure your server to create a Unix socket in the place where LO
> expects to find it.
> 
> - or your reconfigure your mariadb server to use TCP/IP (see the
> bind-address entry) instead of acessing the Unix socket - this is generally
> done by editing the my/cnf file, but beware of the safety considerations in
> doing so (especially if you have access from outside your network into your
> LAN.

You'll also need to restart your mariadb server once you've made the change to
the my.cnf file.

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