I have installed XAMPP 1.6.2 (need this use this specific version) at /opt/lampp in Ubuntu 16.0.4. I have installed Mysql 5.7.18-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 using apt-get. I need to use the installed version of MySQL with PHP that came with XAMPP.
When I try to connect PHP with MySQL (independent installation), I get this error:
Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/opt/lampp/var/mysql/mysql.sock'
I am still getting this error after trying the following things:
- Replaced all occurrences of '/opt/lampp/var/mysql/mysql.sock' with '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' in /opt/lampp directory.
- Restarted Apache, MySQL.
- Rebooted system.
- Searched on Stackoverflow, and tried existing solutions (eg. edit my.cnf)
Please help me out; Thanks.