Connect to MySQL with unix sockets
On Unix, you can connect to the mysqld server by using two different ways: a Unix socket file (for example, /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock), or by using TCP/IP (for example, 127.0.0.1:3306
). A connection that is created with a Unix socket file is faster than TCP/IP but can only be used when connecting to a server on the same computer. When you use a Unix socket file, you can skip a hostname and port in the connection string.
Step 1. Locate a Unix socket file
On the server host in the command line, run the following command:
mysql -u root -p -h 127.0.0.1 -e "select @@socket"Type a password for your
root
user and press Enter.
Step 2. Check the Unix socket connection from the command line
In the command line, run the following command:
mysql -u root -p -S /var/run/mysqld/mysql.sock
.Type a password for your
root
user and press Enter.
Step 3. Download third-party libraries
The Connector/J driver does not natively support connections to MySQL Servers with Unix domain sockets. To enable socket connection, you need to download third-party libraries. For more information about this limitation, see Connecting Using Unix Domain Sockets at dev.mysql.com.
Download the latest release from the junixsocket repository at github.com (for example, junixsocket-dist-2.3.2-bin.tar.gz).
Extract the downloaded archive. You need to add the following files from the lib directory to the MySQL driver in DataGrip:
- junixsocket-mysql-2.3.2.jar
junixsocket-native-common-2.3.2.jar, if you have a custom architecture try junixsocket-native-custom-2.3.2.jar
- junixsocket-core-2.3.2.jar
- junixsocket-common-2.3.2.jar
Step 4. Configure the MySQL driver in DataGrip
Navigate to
or press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S.In the Drivers section, click the MySQL driver and click the Duplicate button . Alternatively, press Ctrl+D.
Change the name of the duplicated driver (for example, MySQL socket).
On the General tab, click the Add button () and select Custom JARs.
In the file browser, navigate to a folder with third-party libraries (see Step 3). While pressing Ctrl, select the following files:
- junixsocket-mysql-2.3.2.jar
junixsocket-native-common-2.3.2.jar, if you have a custom architecture try junixsocket-native-custom-2.3.2.jar
- junixsocket-core-2.3.2.jar
- junixsocket-common-2.3.2.jar
Click OK.
On the Advanced tab, find the socketFactory property, double-click the Value cell, and change the value to
org.newsclub.net.mysql.AFUNIXDatabaseSocketFactory
.Scroll down to the end of the property list, double-click the <user defined> cell and type
junixsocket.file
. Double-click the Value cell and type the path to your socket file (see Step 1).Press Apply.
Step 5. Create a connection to the MySQL server
Navigate to
or press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S.In the Data Sources and Drivers dialog, click the Add icon () and select MySQL.
At the bottom of the data source settings area, click the Download missing driver files link. Alternatively, you can specify user drivers for the data source. For more information about user drivers, see Add a user driver to an existing connection.
On the Advanced tab, find the
serverTimezone
parameter in the list of options. Double-click the Value cell and type your server timezone (for example,UTC
).Click the General tab.
From the Driver list, select the driver that you created earlier (see Step 4).
In User and Password fields, specify your user credentials.
To ensure that the connection to the data source is successful, click Test Connection.