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Comment on Running PHP and MySQL with phpMyAdmin on OS X 10.5 by tom

tom — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:14:12 +0000

JD, you’re a star! I finally got things working after closely following your instructions. One slight modification from me was to replace all occurrences in the php.ini file with /tmp/mysql.sock and restart apache. That seemed to do the trick.

Comment on Mint.com finally supports PNC … by Jonathan Dean

Jonathan Dean — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:11:56 +0000

There’s an announcement at the top of my PNC Virtual Wallet account that says it officially supports mint.com now. Mint was able to log into my PNC account but the account balances were still wrong. Looks like the same balances I had from months ago when it seemed like it was working but never updated anything after that.

So I removed the old accounts and added it again and now it seems to be working. It pulled in the correct balances and all transactions. Very exciting! Let’s hope it stays this time…

Comment on Mint.com finally supports PNC … by Eug

Eug — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:10:36 +0000

Yes sadly it’s PNC’s fault for using a flash(fancy) login screen. It looks nice but its a b**** to deal with programmaticaly. Maybe they will create a seperate, regular login screen for bots?

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Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:47:35 +0000

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Comment on Running PHP and MySQL with phpMyAdmin on OS X 10.5 by ben

ben — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:12:43 +0000

nvm got it working! YOU ROCK! thanks again for the fantastically easy and accurate guide!

Comment on Running PHP and MySQL with phpMyAdmin on OS X 10.5 by ben

ben — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:59:34 +0000

Thank you so much for the awesome instructions. You have helped me get closer than anyone else! i am now able to login to mysql through terminal and was able to set the password, but now I am unable to login to phpmyadmin. I am getting this error: #2002 – The server is not responding (or the local MySQL server’s socket is not correctly configured)

per your instructions, i edited line 1060 of my php.ini file to read as follows: pdo_mysql.default_socket=/tmp/mysql.sock

so i think the mysql socket is correctly configured. still not sure what’s wrong, any help would be greatly appreciated

Comment on Running PHP and MySQL with phpMyAdmin on OS X 10.5 by Jonathan Dean

Jonathan Dean — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:07:41 +0000

Thanks, everyone. Glad this has been useful to some other people as well

Comment on Running PHP and MySQL with phpMyAdmin on OS X 10.5 by Andrrew

Andrrew — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:52:13 +0000

Well, silly me, I thought I could log in with my user name, which is a system administrator. I did not know about root. Now I’m in. Thanks.

Comment on Running PHP and MySQL with phpMyAdmin on OS X 10.5 by Andrrew

Andrrew — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:47:40 +0000

Thanks Jonathan, best set of instructions I’ve found to get to the phpMyAdmin welcome screen, but:
I also have the message Georgio had with ‘Cannot load mcrypt…’ And I cannot login – ‘#1045 Access denied’. I was able to access mysql in Terminal with the password I set.
I loaded phpMyAdmin in Sites/
/private/etc/php.ini :
line 624 ;extension=php_mcrypt.dll
line 761 mysql.default_socket = /tmp/mysql.sock

Anything I can do next?

Comment on Running PHP and MySQL with phpMyAdmin on OS X 10.5 by DJ

DJ — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:29:00 +0000

Awesome awesome instructions. Been having a heck of time getting installed (using php docs). I’m a newbie and your awesome instructions saved the day! Cheers.

Comment on Apple Time Capsule and Verizon Fios Actiontec router by Jill

Jill — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:31:44 +0000

I am having trouble with this as well – my computer will not detect the time capsule – i think i have to turn off the wireless on the Actiontec device, did you have to do that?

Comment on Apache rewrite rules to force secure/non-secure pages by ema

ema — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:51:25 +0000

Another (possible) solution:

This redirects urls (donate/whatsoever) to https

RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$
RewriteRule ^donate(.*)$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R]

And this redirect to http in the other cases (files are not switched back to avoid IE messages)

RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^443$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !donate(.*)$
RewriteRule (.*) http://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R]

Other references:
http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/http-https-rewriterule-redirect.html
http://www.webmasterworld.com/apache/3516509.htm

Comment on Friendly URLs in PHP and Apache by صور بنات

صور بنات — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:40:13 +0000

Thanks i have tried that on my local server it is working fine صور بنات

Comment on Running PHP and MySQL with phpMyAdmin on OS X 10.5 by ca

ca — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:39:12 +0000

hi again,
i did this command from outside mysql and that did it.
mysqladmin -u root password mypasswordhere
thanks for the useful and current article!

Comment on Running PHP and MySQL with phpMyAdmin on OS X 10.5 by ca

ca — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:08:02 +0000

hi,
mysql> set password for ‘root’@'localhost’=password(’my password here’);
ERROR 1044 (42000): Access denied for user ”@’localhost’ to database ‘mysql’
mysql>

Comment on Running PHP and MySQL with phpMyAdmin on OS X 10.5 by Georgio

Georgio — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 14:59:54 +0000

Ok, I’ve got myphpadmin working now. As you suggested, the mcrypt module wasn’t the problem, it was my failure to set mysql.default_socket.

Thanks for your great support Jonathan!

Comment on Running PHP and MySQL with phpMyAdmin on OS X 10.5 by Jonathan Dean

Jonathan Dean — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 14:36:55 +0000

Georgio, I also get the mcrypt extension error but I am able to log in. I believe to fix this error you would need to recompile PHP with the –with-mcrypt[=DIR] parameter (see http://php.net/mcrypt). Do you happen to be running a 64-bit machine? The documentation at http://www.phpmyadmin.net/documentation/ states: “When using the ‘cookie’ authentication method, the mcrypt extension is strongly suggested for most users and is required for 64–bit machines.”

You may also be able to choose a different authentication mode if you think mcrypt is your problem. It may also be worth changing the password again just to make sure you typing everything correctly. I make typing mistakes quite a bit

Comment on Running PHP and MySQL with phpMyAdmin on OS X 10.5 by Georgio

Georgio — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 14:19:12 +0000

Jonathan, thanks. The semicolon solved that problem. Obvious when you know.

Now I’ve got another problem, with phpmyadmin. I’ve installed and set it up as you describe, but when I go to the login page I get:
‘Cannot load mcrypt extension. Please check your PHP configuration.’
below the login box and i can’t login with newly set root login and password.

Comment on Running PHP and MySQL with phpMyAdmin on OS X 10.5 by Jonathan Dean

Jonathan Dean — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 12:29:54 +0000

Georgio, did you include the semicolon (;) at the end of the line? When entering sql commands via the command line, each statement must end with a semicolon. Otherwise it thinks you aren’t finished and waits for the rest of the statement on the next line. You can also put more than one statement on the same line as long as both are terminated by the semicolon. In PHP you don’t include the semicolon because you only execute one statement at a time as a single string and PHP sends the termination for you.

Comment on Running PHP and MySQL with phpMyAdmin on OS X 10.5 by Georgio

Georgio — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 10:32:24 +0000

I’m having trouble with this:
set password for ‘root’@'localhost’ = password(’yourpassword’)

(I change the quotes to straight ones and substituted my password)
When i execute that in mysql I get a prompt like this:
->
but it doesn’t seem to respond to any commands.

Any advice will be welcome.