Tag Archives: mac

Problems connecting to unix:///var/mysql/mysql.sock

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Jimmi Westerberg

In this post I’ll go through fixing the problems with PHP and connecting to your local mysql install, using “localhost”.

The problems began a while back, with lots of errors in my apache error log saying:
[error] [client ::1] PHP Warning: mysql_connect(): [2002] No such file or directory (trying to connect via unix:///var/mysql/mysql.sock) in …

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MySQL 5.5, Mac OS X and startup item security error

Posted on January 7, 2011 by Jimmi Westerberg

A few days ago I got a shiny new macbook at work and I needed to install my dev environment again.

I came across a few problems when installing the new MySQL community server package though, which had been upgraded to 5.5 instead of the 5.1 release I had on my old Mac.

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Cycle through history in linux/mac terminal

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Jimmi Westerberg

If you are like me, you often use the terminal for… well.. let’s face it, most things. I cannot remember one day, when i’m not bashing the keys in the terminal, trying to find, script or copy my way out …

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Fixing symlinks in Mac OS 10 + built in Apache

Posted on May 3, 2010 by Jimmi Westerberg

The other night I was fiddling about with my macbook, trying to setup a “MySQL-Apache-PHP” server on my system. Digging a bit about the system and googling a bit, it seems that the system comes with a built in apache server and php installation.

I thought to myself, why not use the built in server instead of installing a MAMP package?

Anyways, seconds went by and I found the option in the system preferences, turned on “web sharing” and excitedly headed on to localhost. It worked perfectly, now I just needed to set it up as it was on my linux desktop.

The apache’s httpd.conf file is located in the folder: /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf
(I used textmate to edit the file.)

What I wanted to do was, since I’m the only user on this laptop, I wanted my Sites folder to have a www “folder”, which was a symlink to a folder in my Documents folder. The symlink would then point to the webapp I was currently coding.

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