The 2026 Drupal Business Survey is open. Your response will help shape the future of the Drupal business ecosystem.I'm trying to use HEAD on the Acquia stack installer and realized that the PDO MySQL stuff doesn't let you specify the socket in the .ini file. It sounds like the only way to do this is via the dsn string. Here's a trivial patch to add this to the mysql driver.
| Comment | File | Size | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| #16 | missing_brackets.patch | 1.51 KB | berdir |
| #3 | dbtng_mysql_socket.patch | 1.33 KB | drewish |
| #2 | dbtng_mysql_socket.patch | 1.37 KB | drewish |
| dbtng_mysql_socket.patch | 812 bytes | drewish |
Comments
Comment #1
drewish commentedlets spell it correctly.
Comment #2
drewish commentedDamZ pointed out that according to the docs you shouldn't specify host/port and socket at the same time.
Comment #3
drewish commentedadding some comments.
Comment #5
drewish commentedi want a re-test.
Comment #6
Crell commentedThe approach here is sound, bot permitting. But it should probably be documented in the INSTALL.mysql.txt file as well. (It's too much of an edge case to put in settings.php directly, IMO.)
Comment #8
Crell commentedSomeone want to get back to this or no? :-)
Comment #9
drewish commentedi want to see what the test bot says.
Comment #11
Crell commentedComment #12
Crell commentedMarked #537880: Installation using socket rather than host as a duplicate.
Comment #13
BarisW commentedI have the same issue. The patch from #2 is working. Without this, I was unable to install Drupal 7 on my Reseller server.
Is there a reason not to include this in V7? I'm not sure how many people have this issue, but I think I'm not the only one. If we decide to postpone this to Drupal8, we should at least set a message with the description of the error.
Comment #14
Crell commentedIt's not in D7 because no one was able to drive it home before code freeze. I am willing to make an exception for it if webchick is. The approach seems sound, but it needs to pass the test bot. I also don't quite know how we can test this. :-)
Comment #15
damien tournoud commentedThis is a bug report. Bugs are fixed in the current development version before being backported. This should never has been pushed to D8.
Comment #16
berdirRe-roll, the ?: needs brackets around the whole statement.
Comment #17
duellj commentedPatch works correctly. Was able to connect to alternate socket, and if socket is specified, then host and port are ignored (expected behavior).
Comment #18
BarisW commentedGood work! Thanks ;)
Comment #19
webchickCommitted to HEAD, thanks!
I don't think there's a way to add a test for this, so marking as fixed.