It’s very annoying when a manual doesn’t mention important points. Mysqladmin: connect to server at ‘localhost’ failedĮrror: ‘Access denied for user ‘Carolina (using password: NO)’ So I go back to your book and start again: bash: /Users/Carolina S/.bash_profile: No such file or directory Last login: Wed Apr 10 15:32:28 on ttys000Ĭarolinas-MacBook-Pro:~ Carolina S$ source ~/.bash_profile The first time it was working, but after going back to phpmyadmin something changed. So I follow their link back to MySql install here: There it says that when installing MySQl one should have chosen a username and password. So I followed instructions from this website: ]įor the installation of PHP my admin, the book sends you to I don’t understand that site. Obviously after that last message I don’t get this.

The book says: if everything worked the way it’s supposed to, you should see a brief list of statistics about your MySql server. Last login: Sun Mar 24 17:23:59 on ttys000Ĭarolinas-MacBook-Pro:~ Carolina S$ mysqladmin status Then, with your MYSql server running, try running the mysqladmin program from your home directory. Sh-3.2# echo ‘/usr/local/mysql/bin’ > /etc/paths.d/mysqlĬlose the terminal window and open a new one to allow this change to take effect. Pop open a new Terminal window and type these commands: Doing this enables you to run programs like mysqladmin and mysql in the Terminal without typing out their full paths.

One last task you’ll want to do is add the/usr/local/mysql/bin directory to your system path. I’m following the manual installation of MySql described in Kevin Yank’s PHP & MYSQL Novice to Ninja, Fifth Edition, 2012.

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