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Article:		Apache Web-Serving With Mac OS X, Part 5
Subject:		Finally Got It to Work!
Date:		2002-06-06 19:18:01
From:		pogo

Hello... after 2 days of struggling with this program, I finally got it to work! I even went so far as to reinstall MacOSX on my machine to start from scratch. What was the problem, and the subsequent solution? I kept getting the error message to the effect that "localhost cannot connect to MySql... or something close to that. When I compared the instructions given here for setup to those on Marc Liyanage's website ( http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/mysql/ ) I kept missing the fact that there is a wildcard character * in one of the lines. In the instructions given here, it is missing. Open a terminal window and type in the following commands (without the double quotes): type "cd /usr/local/mysql" type "sudo ./scripts/mysql_install_db", enter administrator password when asked type "sudo chown -R mysql /usr/local/mysql/" type "sudo ./bin/safe_mysqld --user=mysql &" Use it with "mysql test" Note the above wildcard character! This is for the binary install - add the in the applicable place for the source install and you should be good to go! Hope this helps someone, Bill