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Completely uninstall mysql from Mac OS X

sam — Thu, 14 May 2009 23:54:42 +0000

Remove mysql, prefpane item, startup item.
then:

sudo rm -rf /Library/Receipts/mysql*

There is a good complete explanation of this here.

Mac OS X command-line launchd control of mysql

sam — Thu, 14 May 2009 23:45:57 +0000

To start, stop and disable mysql server from the command line:

# start
sudo launchctl start com.mysql.mysqld
# stop
sudo launchctl stop com.mysql.mysqld
# Unload
sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.mysql.mysqld.plist

Installing Ruby MySQL gem on Mac OS X Leopard

sam — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:24:30 +0000

Thanks to this post, I discovered how to install the MySQL ruby gem on Mac OS X:

You must be using the x86 variant of MySQL, not x86_64, apparently. Then:

sudo env ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386" gem install mysql -- \
--with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysql --with-mysql-lib=/usr/local/mysql/lib \
--with-mysql-include=/usr/local/mysql/include

SchemaSpy with MySQL on Mac OS X

sam — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:16:07 +0000

To get SchemaSpy working on Mac OS X, I:

Downloaded the latest SchemaSpy, schemaSpy_4.0.0.jar

Installed GraphViz using MacPorts

sudo port install graphviz

Installed the MySQL JDBC drivers using MacPorts

sudo port install mysql-connector-java

Ran it like this:

java -jar schemaSpy_4.0.0.jar -t mysql -dp /opt/local/var/macports/software/mysql-connector-java/5.0.7_0/opt/local/share/java/mysql-connector-java-5.0.jar -o <outputdir> -host localhost -db <dbname> -u <username> -p <password>

Starting MySQL on Mac OS X

sam — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:13:53 +0000

If you installed the MySQLStartupItem that comes with mysql.com’s binary packaged MySQL server, you can:

sudo /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM/MySQLCOM start

to start the server. This applies to Leopard. Apparently under Tiger it had a different name.

Installing MySQL (binaries) on Mac OS X Leopard

sam — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:58:58 +0000

There are a couple of possible ways to install MySQL server on Mac OS X Leopard. Which one you take depends on what is available at mysql.com. When a new version of Mac OS come out, in the past it has taken mysql.com many months to come up with packaged binary releases of MySQL server for it. During that period you are forced to build MySQL server from sources – I will detail how to do that in a separate post.

For the purposes of this post, let us assume that binary packages are available. At the time of writing, there are binary packages of MySQL server 5.0 and 5.1 available for Mac OS X. The packages also come in two styles: a tar archive, and a .dmg containing .pkg format packages. The tar version contains a nice readme file called INSTALL-BINARY that details all the steps required to get install MySQL up from scratch (e.g. creating mysql user); This is well worth reading. For this go-around however, I decided to try out the .pkg packages.

I downloaded and mounted mysql-5.0.67-osx10.5-x86_64.dmg and mounted it. It contains:

mysql-5.0.67-osx10.5-x86_64.pkg – the server
MySQLStartupitem.pkg – guess what
MySQL.prefPane – a prefpane to start/stop the server

Double-clicking on each of these will install them. The server package appears to be very well behaved – it installs into /usr/local/mysql-VERSION and them symlinks /usr/local/mysql to it. It execute all the other steps required to get the server up (create users, run mysql_install_db etc). The startup item installs to /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM. The preference pane goes where preference panes go

After installing set your mysql root password with:

sudo /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqladmin password <new-password>

and my personal preference is to then install phpmyadmin and go in and delete all other users before continuing.

Installing phpMyAdmin for MySQL Administration

sam — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:00:00 +0000

Download latest phpMyAdmin.
In an appropriate website content folder (e.g. /Library/WebServer/Documents/ on Mac OS X):

tar xvf ~/phpMyAdmin-2.11.8.1-english.tar.bz2
ln -s phpMyAdmin-2.11.8.1-english phpmyadmin
cd phpmyadmin
cp config.sample.inc.php config.inc.php

Edit config.inc.php and set your blowfish secret to a random string:

$cfg['blowfish_secret'] = 'ertyrtfghrty';

On Mac OS X Leopard, there appears to be an issue with PHP that you have to resolve by changing localhost to 127.0.0.1:

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = '127.0.0.1';

Save the file, then browse to http://localhost/phpmyadmin, login as root as see how things look.

Getting MySQL working on Mac OS X Server

sam — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:00:00 +0000

The version of MySQL that comes preintsalled on MacOS X (Leopard) Server does not include client libraries and header files, as discussed here. The remedy as discussed here is to:

Download MySQL-43.binaries.tar.gz

Stop MySQL Server if it was running (Server Admin -> MySQL -> Stop MySQL)

tar xvfz MySQL-43.binaries.tar.gz
cd MySQL-43.binaries
sudo tar -xzvf MySQL-43.root.tar.gz -C /

To configure and start MySQL:

Using Server Admin

Servername -> Services -> Enable MySQL service, Save.

Servername -> MySQL -> Set root password, Save.

Start MySQL.