Comments on: Installing MySQL and PHPMyAdmin on a Mac

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By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 02:32:22 +0000

Hi there,
Great right-up. I had problems with apache loading any of my local sites after following this walk-though. I apachectl -t to see whats up and it had problems with multi-directory settings. For some reason directly copying the settings in nano caused the “” to change. I fixed those and now all is fine.

By: Sasha – Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Localhost Environment Setup

Sasha – Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Localhost Environment Setup — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 07:31:58 +0000

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By: Roger Collins

Roger Collins — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:43:43 +0000

RM. Oops. I think I left something out. I’m updating this article now. Add these lines to the entry in httpd-vhosts.conf:

AllowOverride All
Allow from All

By: Marc-Antoine

Marc-Antoine — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:22:06 +0000

I had the same problem as Gus. You have to remove the “” of ErrorLog and CustomLog.

By: RM

RM — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 06:23:37 +0000

Hi
Thanks for the setup advice. I am setting it up on Snow Leopard (a fresh install).
I have checked your instructions BUT I may have done something wrong!
When typing into the browser I get a 403 forbidden stating I do not have permission/access to the server.
I have set the account up as administrator and have root access.
I wonder if you could suggest a solution?
Thanks

By: Roger Collins

Roger Collins — Fri, 14 May 2010 09:22:22 +0000

Gus, that line uncommented in step 7 is simply including the file that is edited in the next step, so this must mean there is an error in the next step, 8.

By: Gus Long

Gus Long — Thu, 13 May 2010 11:23:06 +0000

Thanks for the great guide very clear for a beginner. Just one question about installing phpmyadmin. When I uncommented the line:
Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
it didn’t work (i just got a browser page not found). But it works when I DO comment out the line, contrary to your instructions. Why could that be?

(am using snow leopard).

By: Roger Collins

Roger Collins — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:21:12 +0000

peter, edit the existing one.

Btw, since I wrote this I became a fan of macports (http://www.macports.org/). Now use that system for installing PHP, MySQL, etc. Installations are easier to manage with macports but you have to look for all their files in /opt/local rather than the default directories.

Good luck and let me know how it goes.

By: peter

peter — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:11:53 +0000

I am running OSX10.6. Just downloaded mysql version for 10.6. Getting back to normal having upgraded the OS!!
Thanks for your article in installing phpMyAdmin. Question is do I add another include statement in the Apache config file or edit the existing one.