arkitrave :: log

Installing mySQL on Mac OS X is not the easy, quick process I thought it would be. In fact, I told my wife I’d be in bed by midnight, and here it is, nearly 3:00 am, and I am just finishing.

I’ve had a local Apache server installed for quite some time, and I use it for development on my 2-computer wireless network. I just decided tonight that I wanted to have database capability as well, as I’m working on developing a proposal for a potential client that uses some PHP/mySQL funtionality.

Suffice it to say that the latest release of mySQL (4.1) is not friendly to Mac OS 10.3, and I didn’t find this out until after I had installed it.

After two hours of Terminal/bash shell bliss, I’m happy to report that I obliterated the renegade version 4.1, killed all the affiliated processes, used sudo commands more times than I can count, and installed an older version, 4.0.23, which works splendidly. I already have a database and a WordPress install working, and I’m looking forward to being able to develop backend stuff locally.