Installation problems

When you run DrupalConsole from your Drupal 8 root directory, you can get different error messages, we will try to compile the reported issues and how to have them fixed.

Error message:

[PDOException] SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] No such file or directory

You will need to edit your 'host' in your 'settings.php' file.

Navigate to sites/default/settings.php. In your settings.php file, change the host to read:

'host' => '127.0.0.1'

or if your 'settings.php' file already reads:

'host' => '127.0.0.1'

change it to read:

'host' => 'localhost'.

After you make the change, be sure to save the file and then run DrupalConsole again.

Error message:

[PDOException]
SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock'

Creating a symlink pointing to /tmp/mysql.sock:

ln -s /path/to/your/mysql/data/mysql.sock /tmp/mysql.sock