Comment by Sergey Ponomarev on SSH Tunnel MySQL Connection with socket-connection via PhpStorm

FYI: You may forward remote UNIX socket to a local port like: ssh -N -L 127.0.0.1:5000:/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock sshuser@remotehost Then you connect a mysql client to the local IP 127.0.0.1 and port 5000