Comments on: Setting up PHP, MySQL, and Apache in Mac OSX Leopard

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:58:16 +0000

Hi! I had the same “ERROR! Manager of pid-file quit without updating file.” problem.

I had installed mysql using MacPorts and it turned out mysqld.sock defaulted to be in ‘/opt/local/var/run/mysql5′ – a directory that didn’t exist! So after creating ‘run’ and ‘mysql5′ and setting owner and group to ‘_mysql’ followed by fixing up php.ini to point at mysqld.sock (and restarting Apache) everything works!

This is on an old PPC Mini with OSX 10.5.8.

By: Khalid

Khalid — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 04:56:40 +0000

Ok. I fixed the problem with sudo. It was permission problem.

But the problem of not finding sql.sock is still with me.

By: Khalid

Khalid — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 02:05:38 +0000

This is an excellent tutorial on how to setup PHP, MYSQL, and APACHE on a Mac. Thank you so much for this!!.I just hope this discussion is still open.

I faced one problem with my sql. When I looked at /etc I could not find sql.sock that is where I got stuck. Also, when I tried to start mysql via terminal I get the following:
Oryx:~ kskhater$ sudo /usr/local/mysql-5.5.2-m2-osx10.6-x86/support-files/mysql.server start
sudo: /etc/sudoers is mode 0644, should be 0440
Segmentation fault

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:46:17 +0000

Hey Jim,

I have exactly the same issue as you. I had installed MySQL and had is running fine yesterday. Since then I have restarted my macbook and now can’t get the server to start.

Exactly the input in terminal producing exactly the same error message.

If you get it sorted then please post and let me know

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:18:56 +0000

So, some progress.

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?

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:09:31 +0000

I’m still struggling with getting the mysql to work via prefpane. I think I’ve messed up the prefpane. I somehow ended up with two mysql icons in the system pref panel. In my frustration I just dragged one of the icons to the trash. Now I get an error message when I click the other one. I rebooted. Back in the system pref panel it now shows a gearbox icon instead of a mysql icon. When I clicked it, it showed “Loading com.mysql.MYSQL” then an error window opened that says “Preferences Error: You cannot open com.mysql.MySQL preferences becasue ti doesn’t work on an Intel-vbased Mac.’ SO I just closed it and went searching online.

I found this bug report. http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=28854 I read the post about:
**************
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.

By: Stevie

Stevie — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:44:21 +0000

Jim… I sent you an email.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:18:16 +0000

Stevie,
I’m stuck at trying to get MYSQL to start either in the pref panel or in terminal. The Pref panel prompts for the password, I enter it and nothing happens. In terminal:
imac:~ myname$ sudo /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server start
Password:
Starting MySQL
…… ERROR! Manager of pid-file quit without updating file.

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

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:04:23 +0000

Stevie,
Thanks for the prompt reply. I’m not on SnowLeopard yet. I’m currently running 10.5.8 (I should have mentioned that earlier). I downloaded mysql-5.1.43-osx10.5-x86_64.dmg, mysql-gui-tools-5.0-r12-osx10.4-universal.dmg

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

By: Stevie

Stevie — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:21:40 +0000

Hi Jim. First off, you must have Administrator rights to edit and save UNIX files. Make sure your user account includes admin rights. If you’re on Snow Leopard, I had a similar problem where Coda (as well as TextEdit) wouldn’t allow me to save UNIX files either. I rectified the problem by purchasing a copy of TextMate. This was right when Snow Leopard came out so this may issue may have been rectified. I think I may have just edited the hosts file with Terminal before I purchased TextMate.

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…