Docker MYSQL '[2002] Connection refused'

Question

I was trying out Docker for the first time. Got a LEMP stack up and running, but I can't connect to the MYSQL Database. Not on my Symfony application, not on PHPMyAdmin. The applications are returning the following error code:

An exception occured in driver: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Connection refused

This is my docker-compose.yml:

nginx:
    image: tutum/nginx
    ports:
        - "80:80"
    links:
        - phpfpm
    volumes:
        - ./nginx/default:/etc/nginx/sites-available/default
        - ./nginx/default:/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default

        - ./logs/nginx-error.log:/var/log/nginx/error.log
        - ./logs/nginx-access.log:/var/log/nginx/access.log
phpfpm:
    build: phpfpm/
    ports:
        - "9000:9000"
    volumes:
        - ./public:/usr/share/nginx/html
mysql:
  image: mariadb
  ports:
    - 3306:3306
  environment:
    MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: admin
phpmyadmin:
  image: phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
  restart: always
  links:
    - mysql
  ports:
    - 8183:80
  environment:
    MYSQL_USERNAME: admin
    MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: admin
    PMA_ARBITRARY: 1

Dockerfile PHPFPM:

    FROM php:fpm

RUN docker-php-ext-enable opcache
RUN apt-get update \
  && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends libpq-dev \
  && docker-php-ext-install mysqli pdo_pgsql pdo_mysql

GitHub URL: https://github.com/MolengraafFrank/DockerSymfony

Could someone help me out? Thank you for your time.

Answer 1

you need to link the phpfpm container to mysql.

Answer 2

I've managed to connect to the mysql instance using mysql command line tool, this is the command I used - mysql -u root -p -h 127.0.0.1, and the entering the admin password. Is that a sufficient solution for you?

Answer 3

I had this challenge because I am running 3 different containers with different IP Addresses

db - 172.18.0.3 - container for MYSQL
app - 172.18.0.2 - container for Laravel app

so I fixed it by editing my Laravel .env file

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=172.18.0.3
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=database_name
DB_USERNAME=username
...

To get your containers Ip addresses. From your docker host

docker inspect -f '{{.Name}} - {{range .NetworkSettings.Networks}}{{.IPAddress}}{{end}}' $(docker ps -aq)

Answer 4

The '[2002] Connection refused' means you can reach the database server, but you don't have right access for the user (in you case admin). By default mariadb have a root user with the password given by MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD and this user can connect from any server (%).

If you want use an over login to you databases, you have to create it in the databases server with the right granting on databases from chosen locations.

An over problem is that you maned you databases sever 'mysql' and by default phpmyadmin try to connect to 'db'. So you have to add

      PMA_HOST: mysql

to you Phpmyadmin environment. I think that MYSQL_USERNAME and PMA_ARBITRARY are useless if you work with default configuration (connection with root to your databases server)