Operating System: Mac OS X 5.2
Using MAMP: Mac Apache MySQL PHP
PHP5
Drupal: 6.2

Test installation is working fine. Drush is installed and enabled in Drupal including the modules PM, wget, Toolbox.

The error message "E: Could not locate the Drupal installation directory. Aborting." appears when executing drush in an arbitrary directory.

When executing drush in the Drupal top level directory, I get the following output:

"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">


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The mysqli error was: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/mysql/mysql.sock' (2).


Comments

prodosh’s picture

prodosh commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Drush looks for the MYSQL socket at /var/mysql/mysql.sock (where can one customize this?).
When using MAMP, the socket is at /Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock

As a workaround, execute the following on a Mac OS X command line:

$ sudo ln -s /Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock /var/mysql/mysql.sock

Drush now works fine.

Markus Sandy’s picture

Markus Sandy commented

I had to create the /var/mysql folder before creating the symbolic link.

$ sudo mkdir /var/mysql
$ sudo ln -s /Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock /var/mysql/mysql.sock

Thanks for the tip!