well, I have been using MAMP for quite a long time. It’s a nice app. But then again, if I have native support on my own OS why use an third party app. Heh, actually I need this for some other reason.
Anyway, I am using Snow Leopard (little old though, don’t have money to buy the new one :P)
So, first download the latest version of .dmg from here.
Click mysql-5.5.19-osx10.6-x86_64.pkg (you may have different version) and install by following the screen.
Though this is optional, but I recommend to install MySQLStartupItem.pkg and run the MYSQL.prefPane as well. It will give you a MySQL panel on the System Preference. From here you can start/stop MySQL and also set for automated start upon server startup.
MySQL is accessible from /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql
Set MySQL password for later use.
/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqladmin -u root password SECRET
Installing phpmyadmin
Start Apache from System Preference (enable the web sharing). http://localhost should work now.
In Mac OSX PHP is not enabled by default. So enable PHP from /etc/apache2/httpd.conf by uncommenting the LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so line.
Download phpmyadmin from here.
Extract the files into /usr/local/ directory and rename it to phpmyadmin
Copy the config.sample.inc.php and rename it to config.inc.php from the phpmyadmin directory.
Create a file into /etc/apache2/other/ and add the following lines
Alias /phpmyadmin /usr/local/phpmyadmin
<Directory /usr/local/phpmyadmin>
Options Indexes
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
Restart Apache from terminal
apachectl restart
Open http://localhost/phpmyadmin/
tada!!!!
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