Comments on: Mac Apache MySQL PHP – MAMP

By: jr

jr — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:29:16 +0000

To view pages in MAMP’s document root folder (htdocs), your browser needs to be pointed to “http://localhost:8888/”. The 8888 port is the default port when MAMP is first installed (it can be changed in MAMP’s preferences, but I wouldn’t). If you point your browser to just “localhost” it will try to connect to the Mac’s built-in Apache server.

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:21:38 +0000

I have been trying for 2 days to get this working and sadly I still failing miserably. I don’t think MAMP is the problem, I have that installed and it all looks like its running happily, but I am just trying to test the file test.php:

but going to “http://localhost/test.php” leads to a page that says “Index of /” followed by a list starting with “Java/, PoweredByMacOSX.gif, WebObjects/, apache pb.png”

I have the file saved in htdocs. I am feeling hopelessly lost, any help will be appreciated.

By: David

David — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:25:30 +0000

ln -s doesn’t work for MySQL WorkBench ;/ there is no custom socket path field anymore in advanced options too as in previous MySQL Tools.

By: mediaguru @ Hooked On Golf Blog

mediaguru @ Hooked On Golf Blog — Mon, 11 May 2009 22:41:32 +0000

Nope it doesn’t interfere. It is a completely separate install of the whole thing. The “pro” version I believe lets you set up as many virtual servers as you want.

By: nolan Nadesan

nolan Nadesan — Mon, 11 May 2009 21:18:11 +0000

does MAMP interfere with previous installations of MySQL and Apache?
im running this on a MAC. os x 10.5

By: mediaguru @ Hooked On Golf Blog

mediaguru @ Hooked On Golf Blog — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:27:04 +0000

This is incredible. I’ve been messing around with mysql and apache on my G5 for two days. Finally got it running, then I screwed up one file and brought the whole mysql system down. I’ve fried my brain for two days.

So in trying to debug and fix what I did, I found MAMP. In THREE mouse clicks I had an apache/mysql/php system running perfectly. I could have saved two DAYS if I found it sooner!

By: Jesse

Jesse — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:44:36 +0000

Oops, I guess code is not allowed. I triple checked my code against the book, and I like I said, it works on a commercial server with the exact same configurations.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:42:13 +0000

Please help. I have MAMP installed and I am trying to run a basic php script using an include statement and it does not work. If I upload this code to a server (GoDaddy), it executes just fine.
Here is the entire output when the page loads:

Test Page

Hello, World.

Warning: include(includes/footer.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /- on line 15 Warning: include(): Failed opening ‘includes/footer.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:’) in /- on line 15

Here is my code for this page:

Test Page

I am a newbie to php, and trying to work through some basic tutorials. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!!

By: jeremy wyss

jeremy wyss — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:51:02 +0000

you should check out the extension i got from peakstudios.com it did all the busy work for me and i knew it was done correctly.. when it comes to do data bases i am lets say a moron and this AS3 extension was my savior. it did everything for me!!

By: Fran Westley

Fran Westley — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:23:05 +0000

Can anyone help? I an trying to run Moodle on an old OSX server machine (OS 10.2.8) and when I try to run MAMP is just quits on me. I thought maybe the version of MAMP is too high for the OS???? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

By: Collin L

Collin L — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:20:30 +0000

I have recently set up my MAMP DynDNS site. At first it was a little confusing, but finally i got me connected through to the internet so my friends could view the pages on my mac. But about…Oh say a week ago, I happened to take a look at the DynDNS Updater app I have (or I suppose had would work better) running in unison to MAMP. I could either connect via the ‘default (my ip address)’, or the ‘web-based IP Detection (my ip address)’ interface. Either one would connect my friends at different ip addresses to my site. Now, I get this error message saying, ‘HTTPS Error: peer certificate cannot be authenticated with known CA certificates.’
Any ideas?

By: Rick Squires

Rick Squires — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 23:15:40 +0000

I’ve tried using MAMP with PHP pages generated using Rapidweaver(don’t know PHP so this seeemed a good place to start). I’m trying to use a very simple contact form, but I get the following error in the PHP logfile:

PHP Notice: Undefined variable: tmp_name in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/Sites/MFL/page11/files/mailer.php on line 25

Line 25 in the .php file has absolutely nothing to do with this:

I downloaded MAMP a few days ago, so I guess I’m running the latest version on an Intel iMac (10.4.8 with all the latest security updates running)

I have tried both PHP 4 and 5 from the widget, with the same results

I’m probably missing something very simple, but any pointers would be much appreciated!

Help!

By: Kemp

Kemp — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 04:56:13 +0000

The symlink fix mentioned above is temporary.

A symbolic link in /tmp is not persistent across reboots. One can:
1. Create the symbolic link at the command line immediately before starting Apache and MySQL:

$ ln -s /Applications/mampstack-5.5/mysql/tmp/mysql.sock mysql.sock
$ /Applications/mampstack-5.5/mampctl.sh start apache
$ /Applications/mampstack-5.5/mampctl.sh start mysql

2. create a startup script to recreate it. To do this you create a simple shell script to do it and then set it to run at startup by editing /etc/ttys (after saving the original version)
(see the following links: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301446 http://www.bombich.com/mactips/loginhooks.html)

3. Go with the BitRock solution in their email for the time being until release 5.6 is out with a fix for this.

I have used each of these approaches and can confirm that they work. It is not a big deal in any case. Simply pick what you prefer and go with it.

Kemp

By: Kemp

Kemp — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:53:38 +0000

I received a prompt response from BitRock as included below.

Kemp

—

Thank you for interest in MAMPStack, and inform us of this problem.
You need run the mysql programs adding the following option:

–socket=/Applications/mampstack-5.5/mysql/tmp/mysql.sock

For example:
/Applications/mampstack-5.5/mysql/bin/mysqladmin
–socket=/Applications/mampstack-5.5/mysql/tmp/mysql.sock -p version

This is currently wrong in our documentation, but we have fixed this for
the next release of MAMPStack.

Thanks!
Ana
–
BitRock Support
support@bitrock.com

By: Kemp

Kemp — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 21:45:08 +0000

Let me also mention that I use TinkerTool (avilable free at http://www.bresink.com/osx/TinkerTool.html) to make hidden directories and files appear in the Finder. When hunting for files this can be very handy, especially since SpotLight failed to find files like mysql.sock and I had to find them manually (one could also use Terminal to find them at the command line but I preferred the GUI). I just turn on the hidden files when I need to, and relaunch the Finder. I switch it back when I am done.

Kemp

By: Kemp

Kemp — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 19:38:00 +0000

Though either MAMP or MAMPStack should be pretty equivalent, I downloaded and installed MAMPStack 5.5 since the versions were a tad newer and it had Python as well. It went smoothly with one important issue which I was able to resolve as detailed here.

After the install, the Apache test went fine. Starting MySQL went fine. But verifying that it was up with the following:

Prompt> /Applications/mampstack-5.5/mysql/bin/mysqladmin -p
version

Returned the following:

/Applications/mampstack-5.5/mysql/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at ‘localhost’ failed
error: ‘Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/tmp/mysql.sock’ (2)’
Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: ‘/tmp/mysql.sock’ exists!

The configuration was looking in /tmp for the MySQL socket, which actually was to be found in:
/Applications/mampstack-5.5/mysql/tmp/mysql.sock

I cd’d to the /tmp directory and created a symbolic link to the actual location of the file:

ln -s /Applications/mampstack-5.5/mysql/tmp/mysql.sock mysql.sock

That provided the key link and everything worked.

It is as though the programs in /mysql/bin/ are hard-coded to look in /tmp for mysql.sock. They must be configurable but I haven’t figured it out yet. In any case, the symbolic link fix is simple and works even if it’s a bit of kludge.

Perhaps this would not be an issue with MAMP. But I think I had to deal with a similar issue during the install of MySQL 4 so it may be a more general issue.

I hope this is useful.

Kemp

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 00:06:15 +0000

An alternate open source MAMP stack for OS X 10.3 and later: MAMPStack

By: William Ryan

William Ryan — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 01:23:07 +0000

I am having a problem with superglobals using MAMP. None of my FORM variables are being passed over to the php script. What do I have to do with MAMP to get these variables to work?

I would appreciate any advice.

By: Donal

Donal — Wed, 31 May 2006 00:39:04 +0000

Thanks for all the help. The final solution was quite simple. Once I determined that the first installation was still running in the background I trashed it and restarted the computer. Everything back to Green Lights. Yeh!

Donal

By: kaliban

kaliban — Sun, 28 May 2006 21:06:04 +0000

Oh, one more thing. In some cases, further researching or implementing a solution to the problem will best be done at the command line. This means launching the ‘Terminal’ application, opening a shell (terminal window), and begining to find your way around the linux/bsd back-end. If you find helpful hints from people using other linux like operating systems, and the directions they give you seem like command line instructions, you can try them out by opening a shell and typing them in. In that case, look for any linux introductory website to get oriented to the shell and the command line.

Good luck

-k