I can connect to the DO’s db from the app server through the flag command just fine, that’s how I exported the database .sql there successfully.

But the rails app is another story, it’s like it’s trying to look for a local mysql server even though I believe I’ve specified everything in the database.yml file. The error:

Mysql2::Error::ConnectionError: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)

The database.yml file:

default: &default
  adapter: mysql2
  encoding: utf8
  pool: <%= ENV.fetch("RAILS_MAX_THREADS") { 5 } %>
  username: root
  password: password
  socket: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

production:
  <<: *default
  username: doadmin
  password: password
  host: clients1-do-user-2960833-0.db.ondigitalocean.com
  port: 25060
  database: bw
  sslmode: REQUIRED
  sslca: /root/ca-certificate.crt
  url: mysql2://doadmin:password@clients1-do-user-2960833-0.db.ondigitalocean.com:25060/bw?ssl-mode=REQUIRED

Running ‘ufw status’:

Status: active

To                         Action      From
--                         ------      ----
OpenSSH                    ALLOW       Anywhere                  
3306                       ALLOW       Anywhere                  
Nginx Full                 ALLOW       Anywhere                  
25060                      ALLOW       Anywhere                  
OpenSSH (v6)               ALLOW       Anywhere (v6)             
3306 (v6)                  ALLOW       Anywhere (v6)             
Nginx Full (v6)            ALLOW       Anywhere (v6)             
25060 (v6)                 ALLOW       Anywhere (v6)  

I only have mysql-client installed, version 8 same as the DO server.

mysql  Ver 8.0.19 for Linux on x86_64 (MySQL Community Server - GPL)

Puma is starting rails with production as environment, as it should.

IDK what else to put in the database.yml to tell rails to stop looking into a local server.