Title: [Plugin: WordPress Sphinx Search Plugin] sphnix installation error
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: WordPress Sphinx Search Plugin] sphnix installation error

 *  [yuvan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yuvan/)
 * (@yuvan)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-sphinx-search-plugin-sphnix-installation-error/)
 * at the time of run the indexer of sphinx search plug-in v1.0.0 i found the error
   as
 * using config file ‘/opt/lampp/sphinx/etc/sphinx.conf’…
    indexing index ‘delta_wordpress’…**
   ERROR: index ‘delta_wordpress’: sql_connect: Can’t connect to local MySQL server
   through socket ‘/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock’ (2) (DSN=mysql://root:\*\*\*@localhost:
   3306/yuvan).** total 0 docs, 0 bytes total 0.010 sec, 0.00 bytes/sec, 0.00 docs/
   sec indexing index ‘main_wordpress’… ERROR: index ‘main_wordpress’: sql_connect:
   Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock’(
   2) (DSN=mysql://root:***@localhost:3306/yuvan). total 0 docs, 0 bytes total 0.010
   sec, 0.00 bytes/sec, 0.00 docs/sec
 * like pls help to resolve this error
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-sphinx-plugin/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-sphinx-plugin/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Ivinco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ivinco/)
 * (@ivinco)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-sphinx-search-plugin-sphnix-installation-error/#post-1663509)
 * try 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-sphinx-search-plugin-sphnix-installation-error/#post-1663509)
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