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andrewtweber
Asked: 2012-05-14 13:24:55 +0800 CST

/var/lib/mysql folder is missing

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I've created a virtual machine and am installing things from scratch. Definitely not a sys admin so I'm running into some trouble. I've installed these packages and then restarted httpd

yum -y install mysql
yum -y install php-mysql
yum -y install mysql-devel
service httpd restart

The httpd restart is successful yet I am still getting this error:

Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock'

I looked at /etc/my.cnf and indeed, socket is pointing to that path.

But the /var/lib/mysql folder does not even exist, nor do some files which seem crucial such as /etc/init.d/mysql. Am I missing some other important MySQL yum package? Why would some files (such as my.cnf) exist while others don't?

mysql yum httpd

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    It's likely that you need to install the mysql-server package.

    yum install mysql-server

    You can search for packages by name with some of the following yum commands:

    # list all packages starting with "mysql"
yum list mysql\*

# search package names/summaries/descriptions for "mysql"
yum search mysql

    The packages which you did install likely provided only the client and client libraries, which you could use to connect to a mysql server located on another host.

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