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I've been able to install WordPress and phpMyAdmin on Snow Leopard's native Apache 2/MySQL with no problems, but I'm unable to get Concrete 5 to connect with the MySQL database because, I suspect, I can't figure out what Concrete wants for the path to the server.

I've tried the following:

localhost
local
127.0.0.1
127.0.0.1:3306
/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql
127.0.0.1/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql
127.0.0.1:3306/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql
localhost/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql
localhost:3306/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql

but none work. I've set read/write permissions on the three directories suggested during the installation check, so I don't think permissions are the problem.

Has anybody successfully set up Concrete 5 on 10.6 without using MAMP (which I don't want to use for various reasons)? I'm interested in what you used for the server path.

Thanks.

-- Lee
honeyl
 
jeckerman replied on at Permalink Reply
jeckerman
I run Linux in Virtual Box and it is one of my fav. solutions for dev work, but not an easy chore for everyone, and you have a VM sitting there eating up memory. Have you tried XAMPP? That's what I've been using lately, not bad.

- Josh
honeyl replied on at Permalink Reply
honeyl
Josh,

I tried VirtualBox a while back, but I just wanted to run Apache2 and MySQL native on the Mac OSX, mainly for simplicity's sake.

BTW, I figured out my problem. I had to add host "127.0.0.1" to the MySQL user instead of using anyhost "%". Duh. Works like a charm now.

Thanks for the suggestion anyway.

-- Lee