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I have confirmed that the missing socket setting is the problem. I think the Codeigniter team needs to consider adding one more setting to the database configuration file. It would be nice to have a socket setting for people that connect to their localhost MYSQL via unix socket. It would probably take 10 minutes to add it to the code and most of that time would be finding the files you need to open to edit.

it would be nice to see something like this:

Code:

public $default = [
        'DSN'      => '',
        'hostname' => 'localhost',
        'username' => 'root',
        'password' => 'root',
        'database' => 'codeigniter',
        'DBDriver' => 'MySQLi',
        'DBPrefix' => '',
        'pConnect' => false,
        'DBDebug'  => (ENVIRONMENT !== 'production'),
        'charset'  => 'utf8',
        'DBCollat' => 'utf8_general_ci',
        'swapPre'  => '',
        'encrypt'  => false,
        'compress' => false,
        'strictOn' => false,
        'failover' => [],
        'port'    => 3306,
        'socket' => '',
    ];