[FLOW3-general] MySQL Troubles

[Erik Frister]

Hi all,

I am trying to get a MySQL database connected to the Blog example. 
However, after spending the entire day I think I am missing something :)

I am using FLOW3 alpha7. I created a MySQL database with 
latin1_general_ci and executed the SQL in 
/Packages/Framework/FLOW3/Resources/Private/Persistence/SQL/DDL.sql. 
This all works (as an aside, it doesn't work with utf8_general_ci, MySQL 
will throw a "max key length is 1000 bytes" error because of utf8 uses 
18 bytes).

Then I added the following to the Settings.yaml

FLOW3:
   persistence:
     # Options for the default PDO backend
     backendOptions:
       dataSourceName: 'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=blog_dev'
       username: ef
       password: ef

However, I get an exception. I think I have to add some basic data to 
the table (at least I read that in a post, but that concerned the 
TYPO3CR), but right now I get:

SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] No such file or directory

PDOException thrown in file
Packages/Framework/FLOW3/Classes/Persistence/Backend/PdoBackend.php in 
line 0.

F3\FLOW3\Persistence\Backend\PdoBackend::connect()

Any hints as to which steps I have to do to connect a MySQL database? 
What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance...
Erik