Web server that is not a stack..

[smilinmonki666]

Hi guys,

Just a quick question. I have the following set up:

Apache2 - Using the standard installation with OS x

PHP5 - Using the standard installation with OS x

MySQL - downloaded the .pkg file from MySQL website & installed all three items, the installer, the startup installer & the .pref file.

My problem, got everything installed & working APART from MySQL. Now I know it should work as it works on SL Server, but when I install PHPMyAdmin I don't have the user name or password to access the database. I've used the MySQL Admin Workbench and it tells me that it can connect to the database but with user: root & password: "". Whilst in PHPMyAdmin it does not allow me to log in. I can't find where MySQL is installed although I have read through pages on the internet to see what the default login details are but cannot find anything?

Can anyone help? I know I can install MAMP or another Stack but I don't want to install a stack, I would rather set each one up myself.

Please, someone help?

 

[angelwatt]

Off the top of my head I may remember something about phpMyAdmin having a setting dealing with an empty password.

Edit:
Found their documentation page which has this configuration piece.

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['nopassword'] boolean
Allow attempt to log in without password when a login with password fails. This can be used together with http authentication, when authentication is done some other way and phpMyAdmin gets user name from auth and uses empty password for connecting to MySQL. Password login is still tried first, but as fallback, no password method is tried.

 

[webmunki]

Hope this matches your system:

"The Mac OS X PKG of MySQL installs itself into /usr/local/mysql-VERSION and also installs a symbolic link, /usr/local/mysql, that points to the new location. If a directory named /usr/local/mysql exists, it is renamed to /usr/local/mysql.bak first. Additionally, the installer creates the grant tables in the mysql database by executing mysql_install_db."


From:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mac-os-x-installation.html

 

[smilinmonki666]

Cheers guys,

I did look at that last night & thought it just was not working, but done it this morning & realised that I was just tired & not doing it correctly. Just trying to look over the documentation to find a way to add a password to mysql as it allows blank passwords...

Found out the password, thought i had to search through docs via terminal but then figured it was just done via privileges within PHPMyAdmin...