mysqli_real_connect(): (HY000/2002): No such file

Question

mysqli_real_connect(): (HY000/2002): No such file or directory

PhpMyAdmin error on MacOS. I want answer I really have no idea what I need to do to resolve this.

Answer 1

If your website was running fine and now unexpected ERROR: (HY000/2002): No such file or directory

Then you should NOT CHANGE any configuration file!

First check server error.log file, for Nginx it's located:

/var/log/nginx/error.log

Or for Apache try:

/var/log/apache2/error_log

In my case I could see PHP Fatal error: OUT OF MEMORY in error.log for nginx.

The solution: Add more RAM to server.

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I tried to reboot the web server first before upgrading/adding RAM. Then I got rid of ERROR (HY000/2002) but got some ERROR 50X: Connection Error...

At this point I added 2GB RAM, rebooted the web server and all was working fine!

When the web server was up I noticed 200+ cron-jobs was stuck due to a loop bug in 1 PHP script.

So check which script is consuming memory.

Answer 2

You just need to rename ib_logfile0 and ib_logfile1 as ib_logfile_0 and ib_logfile_1. Then your problem would be solved.