# Unable to access database

**URL:** <https://community.localwp.com/t/unable-to-access-database/14465>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** mysql-8\
**Created:** [September 29, 2019, 6:49am UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/unable-to-access-database/14465 "2019-09-29T06:49:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 4:34pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/unable-to-access-database/14465/39 "2020-05-07T16:34:54Z")

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@richardbuff that command creates an alias to the actual command.

The command is as follows.

`SOCKET=$(mysqld --verbose --help | grep ^socket | awk '{print $2, $3, $4}');ln -sfv $SOCKET /tmp/mysql.sock`

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