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By rusloc on
I need a general advice from people familiar with MAMP and XAMPP on an Intel macbook pro, running Snow Leopard 10.6.1. Attending a recent Drupal summit in Seattle, proved that macbook pro notebooks are most popular with this community, so I hope for a quick solution of my problem. :)
- I first installed XAMPP 1.7.2a, and everything was working.
- After realizing that MAMP 1.8.3 seems to be more appropriate for a mac-based local Drupal website development, I installed it and had a big problem right away:
I could not change the default password for 'root@localhost.com'. The problem was described before in this topic Error when changing MySQL password (MAMP).
- I decided to go back to XAMPP, but this time it wouldn't accept a new password I selected for the 'xampp' user. Some sort of Catch 22 here.
My question: How can I clean up the Apache servers mess on the MBP, and start from scratch WITHOUT re-installing OSX?
TIA
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Do you have MAMP or MAMP PRO?
Do you have MAMP or MAMP PRO? In MAMP PRO you can goto the mysql tab under the server tab and press the button "Change MySql root password". You should not have to re-install the OS to change the password. I would use either XAMPP or MAMP to avoid any confusion. If push comes to shove re-install XAMPP and MAMP.
Mine is MAMP
I did't feel like additional investment, and used the free version, so, I don't have the magic "Change MySql root password" button.
As for reinstallation, I did that but it didn't help. Maybe the problems I experience are the result of too many traces of installing/removing two competing packages?
You are right, I must use either one or the other.
The question is: How do I clean-up the field, to start again?
I think I had this issue
I think I had this issue sometime ago, although it was with MAMP PRO, I can't quite remember my steps to solve it. But I think I ended up re-installing MySQL on OSX. Stop MAMP and XAMPP servers then I went to the MySQL website and downloaded it then re-installed it, then change MySQL password, and then I tried MAMP PRO again.
MAMP MySQL password problem
I just experimented on another computer in the house - Macbook Air. A brand new install of MAMP with no prior experiments of any sort. The result is the same! Error.
I'll try re-installing MySQL as you suggested. Does it matter if the versions of MySQL I download/install and inside MAMP don't match?