ERROR 2003 (HY000): Can’t connect to MySQL server on ‘127.0.0.1’ (111)

If you are using ubuntu, you have to use the following steps to avoid this error(if there is no replication enabled): run the command vim /etc/mysql/my.cnf comment bind-address = 127.0.0.1 using the # symbol restart your mysql server once. Update In Step 1, if you cannot find bind-address in the my.cnf file, look for it in /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf file. Update in case of MySQL replication enabled … Read more