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Just wanted to say thanks for the info on how to install Lynx!

This will be great for testing my website!

Thanks very much for the how-to. While I was compiling PHP, I received a "mysql configure failed" message, which prevented me from being able to make and install. Any ideas why?

Thanks!

Echt super diese aufnahme gefällt mir richtig gut.

You only need to run those commands once. Make sure your MAMP is running before you try this in terminal.

Open up a new Terminal and enter the following:
(Anytime you see a dollar sign before a command, it means do it in terminal w/o the dollar sign)

$mysql -u username -p

This should prompt you for your mysql password

After you type in your MYSQL password, the command line will change to

mysql >

You can use the command "show databases;" minus the quotes to see all your databases in the terminal window.

Example, your terminal window should look like this

mysql > show databases;

You can also enter Queries via the mysql > prompt
Example

Make sure you've selected what database to use, with the USE command first "USE exampledatabase" or you'll get an error.

mysql > USE exampledatabase;

..
To do a simple select it is like so:
mysql > SELECT * FROM exampletable;

I´m sorry, I´m not an experimented developer, after reading your post what I understood is that I open terminal and type :

sudo mkdir /var/mysql
sudo ln -s /Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock /var/mysql/mysql.sock
sudo chown _mysql /var/mysql/mysql.sock
sudo chmod 777 /var/mysql/mysql.sock

but just after I type the first line:

udo mkdir /var/mysql

I´m prompted to write my password, after I write my password, I placed the next 3 lines:

sudo ln -s /Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock /var/mysql/mysql.sock
sudo chown _mysql /var/mysql/mysql.sock
sudo chmod 777 /var/mysql/mysql.sock

and I don´t receive any answer from the terminal...

close terminal and paste the final update:

echo 'export PATH=/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bash_profile

and still can´t start any mysql server, I´m running 10.6.2... am I doing it all wrong?

Hope you can help me.
Thanks in advanced!

Super Perspektive eich echter Hingucker, gratuliere.

If you're like me and make silly mistakes, I implemented your ln fix before launching MAMP. Reversing my steps, I see it was not necessary at all (10.6, running MAMP).

For me, the message was:
$ mysql
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)

hth

Hi,

Thanks for linking back to my pixelchimp instructions, I just stumbled across this post as I am reinstalling PHP, Mysql for Drupal 5 & 6 on 10.6.3.

I have added a few more updates since I used PHP 5.2.13 & newer libraries, lets hope they work with Drupal :^)

Thanks Jay,

This was really a typo. I just fixed it.

And as of OSX 10.6.3 Apple supplies updated PHP (5.3.1) so my backup line in the bottom of the blog was so helpful :) 5.2.12 was backed up and working in a min.

I'm not sure where it is but if you look real close on the tables, it looks like it says "Morgans". Great photo!

Nice! Then we could assume this tip will work on much more Ubuntu based distributions then I thought (like Linux Mint, Xubuntu and so on).