Webserver: chrooted PHP gives mysql.sock error when attempting to reach mysql

Question

Hey guys, I've configured an Ubuntu webserver with Nginx + PHP5-FPM. I've created a chrooted environment (using jailkit) that I'm tossing my developers into, from where they can develop their test applications.

Chroot jail: /home/jail

Nginx and PHP5-FPM run outside the chroot, but are configured to function with websites within the chrooted environment.

So far, Nginx and PHP5-FPM are serving up files without issue, except for the following: When attempting to connect to MySQL, we receive this error: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'

Now, I believe the issue is due to the non-chrooted php.ini referencing mysqld.sock outside of the chroot environment (it's actually using the MySQL default setting currently).

My question is, how can I configure PHP to access MySQL via loopback or similar? (Found that as a suggestion in a google result, but without any instructions)

Or if I'm missing some other obvious setting, let me know. If there's an option of creating a hardlink (that would remain available even if mysql is restarted), that would be handy as well.

Answer 1

I solved my own issue. Jailkit couldn't create a hard link reference to mysqld.sock, as Ubuntu stores /var/run in tmpfs, which appears to the system to be a separate partition (which breaks hardlink functionality). I instead am now mounting /var/run/mysqld in the jail now, like so: mount --bind /var/run/mysqld /home/jail/var/run/mysqld/

Answer 2

You can control MySQL's socket via the socket option in your my.cnf file.

socket = /home/jail/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock