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MySQL startup script on Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Marko Tomic — Wed, 19 May 2010 17:26:48 +0100

I've had problems starting up MySQL database server on startup on Snow Leopard. MySQL preference pane seems to be flaky and it often fails to start MySQL server.

I created this startup script myself and it seems to work nicely.

{xtypo_code}sudo nano /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.mysql.mysqld.plist{/xtypo_code}{xtypo_code}
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtRead More...

MAMP vs Entropy PHP on OS X

Marko Tomic — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:15:36 +0100

Following my post on Snow Leopard Gotchas, I discovered another problem you might run into. SL comes with currently the latest version of PHP 5.3.0. However, not all PHP projects will play nice on v5.3.0. What you could do is:

1. build and configure an older version of PHP from source - e.g. 5.2.11
2. Install Entropy PHP (note: this will modify your SL Apache config files).
3. Or just be lazy and install MAMP (Macintosh, Apache, MySQL, PHP) in a few seconds.

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Snow Leopard Gotchas

Marko Tomic — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:29:48 +0100

I recently upgraded to Snow Leopard from 10.5 and everything went relatively smoothly. I was particularly pleased to see extra 13GB of hard drive space.

However, I noticed a couple of things that I wasn't so pleased about:

Apache unable to start
PHP disabled
MySQL unable to start

I've already walked a couple of people through this, so if you run into the same problem you can try the following:

1. For some reason Snow Leopard modified the following file: