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When is a MySQL error not a MySQL error

Mark Sta Ana on October 09, 2018

Photo by Cassidy Mills on Unsplash I came across this error recently: Mysql2::Error: Can't connect to MySQL server on 'some-db-server.example.com'...
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Felicitas Pojtinger

Consider using mariadb instead of mysql, most contributors switched teams a while back. apt install mysql installs mariadb for you anyways (even though most people probably don't realize) ;)