Download the MySQL DMG for Mac OS X
Install MySQL
This User Tip describes how to download, install, and setup MySQL for use on OS X. It includes an optional section for Perl support. You want the Mac OS X ver. On the downloads section of the MySQL website, scroll down to workbench and choose to download the DMG file. Once the file is downloaded, click on it to open. The next pop-up window will prompt you to drag MySQL Workbench to your applications folder. Proceed and wait for the copy to complete. Now I've a mac at my work and I absolutely can't work with other GUI tools for MySQL, seems completely low compared to HeidiSQL. Is there any chance to make a DMG of this soft for mac? I tried to configure it with winebottler, but i didn't succeed to make it work, if someone can help?
Creating aliases for mysql and mysqladmin. However there are other commands that are helpful such as mysqldump. Instead, I updated my path to include /usr/local/mysql/bin.
Note
You will need to open a new Terminal window or run the command above for your path to update.
I also run mysql_secure_installation. While this isn’t necessary, it’s good practice.
Connect PHP and MySQL¶
You need to ensure PHP and MySQL can communicate with one another.
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If you have /var/mysql/mysql.sock but no /tmp/mysql.sock then
Additional Configuration (optional)¶
Install Mysql On Mac Os
The default configuration for Apache 2.4 on OS X Yosemite seemed pretty lean. For example, common modules like mod_rewrite were disabled. You may consider enabling this now to avoid forgetting they are disabled in the future.
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I edited my Apache Configuration:
I uncommented the following lines (remove #):