Or How to setup a MAMP Stack on… Mac OS X: a proper write up.

Please disregard the gubbins on this post…

[OK - this was going to be a simple step-by-step account of how to install a particular project management system on a Mac OS X box. That particular project stalled but I learnt a few things about how to get a [M]AMP stack setup to the point a which I can continue… ]

Need a project management package. So far requirements and research lead to Open Goo.

• Download package from OpenGoo.
• Create a MySQL database for it.
  • Download and instal PHP My Admin. Nice documentation.
  • • [unstuff it and put the folder into ~/Sites/ , for example]
    • virtualhost it
    • setup config.inc.php with blowfish key
  • fix socket error (?)
    • http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mac-os-x-installation.html: edit (with TextWrangler of course) /etc/php.ini so that  ”mysql.default_socket = /tmp/mysql.sock”
  • Fix mcrypt error: “Cannot load mcrypt extension. Please check your PHP configuration”
  • Ditch the default OS X PHP install in favour of Marc Liyanage’s packaged instal of PHP for Mac OS X
    • If already set up the Apple version of PHP – make sure it’s disabled:  ”LoadModule php5_module“  in /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf shoul commented out
    • Download and run Marc’s installer from the link above. RTFM mind – but it’s a cinch. The new PHP files will now be in /usr/local/php5.
    • Also ditch any previously installed MySQL
      • sudo rm /usr/local/mysql
      • sudo rm -rf /usr/local/mysql*
      • sudo rm -rf /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM
      • sudo rm -rf /Library/PreferencePanes/My*
      • edit /etc/hostconfig and remove the line MYSQLCOM=-YES-
      • sudo rm -rf /Library/Receipts/mysql*
      • sudo rm -rf /Library/Receipts/MySQL*
  • install to match the PHP  package to MySQL 5.0.77
• Create a privileged MySQL user. (Any user may log in without  a password to get an anonymous session: “No Privileges”. Mac OS X user account – or _mysql. At this stage  log in without a password.)
  • phpMyAdmin can manage a whole MySQL server (needs a super-user) as well as a single database. To accomplish the latter you’ll need a properly set up MySQL user who can read/write only the desired database. It’s up to you to look up the appropriate part in the MySQL manual.
• Ye-har! Who’d of guessed… Apple’s MySQL documentation was where to find simple instructions for how to give the MySQL root user a password – and hence succeed to log inwith privileges. Terminal command: /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqladmin -u root password sniggle. Where sniggle is your choice for a secure password.
• For each DB user you should add that user with an MySQL query:
  CREATE USER 'user1'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY'pass1';