I completely unistalled mysql by following this http://akrabat.com/computing/uninstalling-mysql-on-mac-os-x-leopard/

I then reinstalled mysql-5.1.44-osx10.5-x86.dmg and installed the startup items and the pref pane.

I could then start/stop mysql either through the pref pane or using the Terminal commands:
sudo /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM/MySQLCOM start
sudo /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM/MySQLCOM stop

Green “running” in the MySQL Pref Pane. Cool!

From this point I continued on with your tutorial”Getting MySQL and PHP to communicate” and create the my.cnf. Just as soon as I create it, the MySQL server stopped and cannot be started unless I remove the my.cnf file.

So, this is where I am now stuck. Ideas?

I found this bug report. http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=28854 I read the post about:
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I could not start up the server using the Preference Pane, however. I had to run
“/Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM/MySQLCOM start” manually. Then I could connect with the
CLI client without any problems.

Once started, I could not stop the server using the Preference Pane either. However,
stopping it from the CLI with “/Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM/MySQLCOM stop” worked
fine.
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I really don’t know at this point what I’m doing. BUt to hell with it, I tried those start and stop commands in Term and so far as I know they were accepted.

imac:~ jim$ /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM/MySQLCOM stop
Stopping MySQL database server
imac:~ jim$

Maybe that solves my problem, maybe not. I do know that I now have a problem with that mysql icon in the Systems Panel. I’m thinking I should just completely dump mysql off the computer and start over. But I don’t know how to do that either. More reading to do.

I thought mac’s were suppose to make my life easier.

When I first d//l the mysql and installed it yesterday it was working because I even had the widget on the dashboard showing server local status running a green line graph.

I’ve kept a text file of what I’ve done. Can I email you?

THanks,
Jim

When I first started this process, I could not even edit httpd.conf so I found a tip online about using pico in Terminal and that worked just fine.

1. Open terminal.
2. sudo pico /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
3. Make changes and save.

So I assumed I could do the same with the hosts file. Now yesterday I could not do that. This morning I could. Go figure. Obviously a finger problem So now my /etc/hosts file looks like this:

#
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1 localhost
fe80::1%lo0 localhost
127.0.0.1 myname.dev

Is that right? Two 127.0.0.1 listed? Anyway, I’m rolling through the steps again to see what happens.

Thanks,
Jim

Yes you are correct… MacHDD/etc/hosts and MacHDD/private/etc/hosts are the same. The former is just a symbolic link to the latter.

As for your MySQL issues, I would reinstall to be sure it is installed correctly. Luckily I’ve never really had any weird issues with MySQL on any of my computers so I have almost no experience in debugging it. Again if you’re on Snow Leopard, make sure you install the 64-bit version. Good Luck…

Good tutorial but I’m stuck at trying to edit the /etc/hosts file. I can open the file using pico and edit but I can’t save the file. Must be a permissions thing but I checked the file permissions of the etc folder and it does say system: read/write. Can you help? I have another question too…you say edit the etc/hosts file but is that the mMacHDD/etc/hosts or is it the MacHDD/private/etc/hosts ? Or are they the same?

I skipped that section and proceed through to get php to work.Then I worked on mysql but I can’t get it to start in either the admin pane or the terminal. In teh erminal I get this:

imac:~ me$ sudo /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server stop
ERROR! MySQL manager or server PID file could not be found!
imac:~ me$ sudo /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server start
Starting MySQL
…… ERROR! Manager of pid-file quit without updating file.

Comments or ideas?

Thanks for your answer…

Im logged in as Administrator and still cannot edit the httpd.conf file. How can I give the Administrator account the rights to write/edit this file?

Im sorry, but besides that Im not a programmer I am new to Mac.

Thanks Again.