I am using PHP 5.5 and MAMP (downloaded from here):
I have a basic script like this:
<?php
$servername = "127.0.0.1";
$username = "root";
$password = "root";
// Create connection
$conn = mysqli_connect($servername, $username, $password);
// Check connection
if (!$conn) {
die("Connection failed: " . mysqli_connect_error());
}
echo "Connected successfully";
?>
and when I run this script I get this error:
PHP Warning: mysqli_connect(): (HY000/2002): Connection refused in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/test/test.php on line 7
Is there some configuration issue that I need to set up within MAMP or PHP?
In case anyone else comes by this issue, the default port on MAMP for mysql is 8889
, but the port that php expects to use for mysql is 3306
. So you need to open MAMP, go to preferences, and change the MAMP mysql port to 3306
, then restart the mysql server. Now the connection should be successful with host=localhost, user=root, pass=root.