SQL Error: 0, SQLState: 08S01 Communications link failure

The communication link between the driver and the data source to which the driver was attempting to connect failed before the function completed processing. So usually its a network error. This could be caused by packet drops or badly configured Firewall/Switch.

Check your server config file /etc/mysql/my.cnf - verify bind_address is not set to 127.0.0.1. Set it to 0.0.0.0 or comment it out then restart server with:

sudo service mysql restart

I'm answering on specific to this error code(08s01).

usually, MySql close socket connections are some interval of time that is wait_timeout defined on MySQL server-side which by default is 8hours. so if a connection will timeout after this time and the socket will throw an exception which SQLState is "08s01".

1.use connection pool to execute Query, make sure the pool class has a function to make an inspection of the connection members before it goes time_out.

2.give a value of <wait_timeout> greater than the default, but the largest value is 24 days

3.use another parameter in your connection URL, but this method is not recommended, and maybe deprecated.