# Installing MySQL on Leopard? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [December 14, 2007, 10:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-mysql-on-leopard/123201 "2007-12-14T22:08:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![softf5ajivanet](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@softf5ajivanet](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/softf5ajivanet)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 10:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-mysql-on-leopard/123201/1 "2007-12-14T22:08:36Z")
totally not a Rails question but just got OSX Leopard and having real trouble working out how to get MySQL running ? Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![softf5ajivanet](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@softf5ajivanet](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/softf5ajivanet)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 10:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-mysql-on-leopard/123201/2 "2007-12-14T22:52:13Z")
John G. wrote: > totally not a Rails question but just got OSX Leopard and having real > trouble working out how to get MySQL running ? > > Any ideas? can you be more specific ? I just downloaded from their web this mysql-5.0.45-osx10.4-i686.dmg some weeks ago, and all was smoothly, no problems. rai ---
**Author:** ![softf5ajivanet](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@softf5ajivanet](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/softf5ajivanet)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 10:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-mysql-on-leopard/123201/3 "2007-12-14T22:53:26Z")
On Dec 14, 2007 3:08 PM, John G. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > totally not a Rails question but just got OSX Leopard and having real > trouble working out how to get MySQL running ? > > Any ideas? Did you try the download page? [http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html#macosx-dmg](http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html#macosx-dmg) – Greg D. [http://destiney.com/](http://destiney.com/) ---
**Author:** ![softf5ajivanet](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@softf5ajivanet](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/softf5ajivanet)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 11:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-mysql-on-leopard/123201/4 "2007-12-14T23:09:18Z")
On Dec 14, 2007 4:04 PM, John G. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Yeah, the startup tasks don’t work, shame. They work fine for me. – Greg D. [http://destiney.com/](http://destiney.com/) ---
**Author:** ![softf5ajivanet](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@softf5ajivanet](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/softf5ajivanet)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 11:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-mysql-on-leopard/123201/5 "2007-12-14T23:35:23Z")
John G. wrote: > totally not a Rails question but just got OSX Leopard and having real > trouble working out how to get MySQL running ? > > Any ideas? Hivelogic has a good article on it: > **[Dan Benjamin](https://danbenjamin.com)** > > Dan Benjamin's personal website. ---
**Author:** ![softf5ajivanet](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@softf5ajivanet](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/softf5ajivanet)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 11:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-mysql-on-leopard/123201/6 "2007-12-14T23:04:10Z")
Yeah, the startup tasks don’t work, shame. Worked it all out though, posted a guide on my blog, [http://www.red91.com/articles/2007/12/14/installing-mysql-on-leopard](http://www.red91.com/articles/2007/12/14/installing-mysql-on-leopard) Much happier now 😉 ---
**Author:** ![softf5ajivanet](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@softf5ajivanet](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/softf5ajivanet)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2007, 7:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-mysql-on-leopard/123201/7 "2007-12-16T07:56:23Z")
It’s still unclear what you say doesn’t work. “It” worked for me, but I can tell from your blog that I did things a little differently. First, it’s worthwhile saying that what’s in my /Library/Startup Items/ directory is MySQLCOM, which I believe was installed when I downloaded the .dmg from the mysql folks. The other thing I regularly do is copy from the distribution directory the my.cnf file for small installations, then edit it to point servers and clients not to /tmp/mysql.sock but to /var/db/mysql/mysql.sock, which is where I prefer all my mysql stuff to sit (iirc there are security concerns with /tmp and the .sock file). I think I add a corresponding socket entry for each database in my app’s config/ database.yml file. So I can say that on roughly three different Leopard machines I’ve pretty much just downloaded the .dmg from the good folks at [mysql.org](http://mysql.org) and used their stuff. With Leopard Server, though, all this good stuff is already there, and setting Rails apps to be proxied by Apache is wonderfully easy. ---
**Author:** ![softf5ajivanet](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@softf5ajivanet](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/softf5ajivanet)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2007, 11:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-mysql-on-leopard/123201/8 "2007-12-15T23:42:55Z")
trust me when i say that doesn’t work for Leopard, 😉 ---
**Author:** ![softf5ajivanet](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@softf5ajivanet](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/softf5ajivanet)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2007, 10:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-mysql-on-leopard/123201/9 "2007-12-16T10:02:34Z")
Oh, well, no problem then, just with some setup’s it seems to throw a permissions issue and refuse to fire. With mine the install worked fine, but wouldn’t startup after that, so i had to do a combination of what people suggested to make it work. Wish it was as easy for me, just refused point blank to work until i tweaked it.