Why does XenForo not support MySQL sockets?

[komi]

I am very impressed by XenForo, but it appears that it does not support connecting to MySQL through Unix sockets. Why?

• Does TCP not have limitations compared to Unix sockets?
• Do Unix sockets not perform better than TCP?

 

[CTXMedia]

If you specify your MySQL server as "localhost" in your config.php file it will connect through a UNIX socket.

To check, run mysqladmin version and it'll tell you (here's what my server says):

Server version 5.5.28-29.2-log
Protocol version 10
Connection Localhost via UNIX socket
UNIX socket /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
Uptime: 15 days 3 hours 17 min 32 sec


Cheers,
Shaun

 

[Jake Bunce]

This might be useful:

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/1-1-denied-access-to-the-database.5125/page-2#post-269793