Instaaling drupal on my mac
northkites - September 1, 2007 - 10:45
I cant seem to install drupal on my mac well i can but ! i cant creat a user data base ! iv tryed useing mapa to do it i creat a data base in mapa but then come to put my detail in to the drupal use name and password section it say invaild ????? and tips ? iv try installing entropy into my mac to but it fails im running 10.4.10 ! Anyone help ? just wanna set it up as a testing station ! oh and im pretty new to drupal
MAMP to the Rescue, BURBBRRRRR...
MAMP is an amazing little app to speed your development and get you straight to building your site and not your server. MAMP stands for: Macintosh, Apache, Mysql and PHP. Just install the app, and by default you can create folders in /applications/mamp/htdocs/your_site. After starting the mamp server just navigate to http://localhost/your_site. You will still need to create your database initially for drupal. So mamp has my_php_admin already installed so you can do it that way, or I prefer to use terminal. If you are going to use terminal you will need to read the mamp manual to manually configure your .profile file so that mac knows to remap your mysql terminal command to mamp's mysql and not osx's mysql.
alias mysql=/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysqlalias mysqladmin=/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysqladmin
alias mysqldump=/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysqldump
I just added those lines to my ~/.profile file, you could alternatively do it for the entire system if you like. Note, these are only if you want to use the terminal to control mysql.
If your using php myadmin you can find instructions on how to create your database. By default mamp already has a user that you could use, though not often recommended but usually fine for local host developement. User: root, Pass: root. So after you create your database go to http://localhost/your_site, the drupal install page should appear, type in the database name you just created and username root and password root, unless you created additional users for mysql, and your done. Hit next and your drupal install is complete.
Here are some videos that demonstrate the process. http://www.lullabot.com/node/158/play and http://www.lullabot.com/node/247/play. I kinda think the second video, http://www.lullabot.com/node/247/play, is more of what your looking for.
Also here is a cheat sheet I made and used when first using mysql, http://paretech.com/notes/node/2.
Enjoy and happy drupalling,
-mpare
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Figure Something Out? Document Your Success!
Change root password?
mpare --
Thanks for all the useful notes. I successfully got MAMP installed and running, but I can't figure out how to change the MySql password from root to something else. The FAQ states this:
/Applications/MAMP/bin/mysql4/bin/mysqladmin -u root -p password
But that path is wrong. There is no mysql4 folder under bin. Does anyone know what the correct path is?
I also checked out your cheat sheet. I assume this command should do it:
mysqladmin -u <user_name> password <desired_password>However, I get a command not found when I run that in the terminal.
I'm pretty new to the Apple environment. Hopefully I'm just missing something obvious.
My Answer!
I just found my answer here (reply #19):
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=246256