This should be really straightforward, but I found myself googling around. I wrote a recent post about how to create a web app with the Laravel PHP framework but connecting to the database was tricky.
First step, find out what version of OS X you are running. Click the apple icon in the top right corner of your screen and click “About This Mac”. I got something like this:
Step 1: open Terminal and check your MYSQL Server version. Mysql -version My machine: mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.7.9, for osx10.9 (x8664) using EditLine wrapper. Step 2: Open MySQL Workbench tool then go to 'MYSQLWorkbench' near Apple icon on menu. Step 3: Workbench Preferences - Modeling - MySQL - Default Target MySQL Version: 5.6.
Next step, head over to the MySQL downloads page.
So with my computer I am running 10.11 and we want the .dmg file. Download Mac OS X 10.10 (x86, 64-bit), DMG Archive. Then you get to this lame screen:
- MySQL Community Edition MySQL Community Edition is the freely downloadable version of the world's most popular open source database. It is available under the GPL license and is supported by a huge and active community of open source developers.
- MySQL Cluster CGE. MySQL Cluster is a real-time open source transactional database designed for fast, always-on access to data under high throughput conditions. MySQL Cluster; MySQL Cluster Manager; Plus, everything in MySQL Enterprise Edition; Learn More » Customer Download » (Select Patches & Updates Tab, Product Search) Trial Download ».
MySQL is free and open source software (FOSS), you do not need to sign up or create an account. Click “No thanks, just start my download”. I let the download go directly to my “Downloads” folder when prompted, though you could place it anywhere. The download will take some time because it is 350mb, go get a coffee. Once the download is complete. Double click the file and a screen like this will open
Double click it and go through the install process.
When I did it I got an alert box:
Add to path. This went in ~/**.zshrc **because I am using ZSH. If you are using bash for terminal (the default on OS X) this will be the ~/.bashrc file or ~/.bash_profile. Kaspersky mac os x free download. This post explains the difference between the two files.
Mac Os Mysql
Add the mysql download to your path so that you can use the “mysql” command from the command line.
Then test it out:
Now that we have MySQL installed and accessible from the Terminal, it’s time to connect to the database and start the MySQL server. Let’s log in as root user (root@localhost) and use that funky password that popped up in the alert window after our install. In the above case it’s
#fW&tYe?<8?w
Great! Now we can create databases and run SQL queries right from the command line. That’s an awesome start, but there’s no way anyone is going to remember that password, nor is it enjoyable to type in every time we want to run MySQL. The full docs on changing passwords are here. For OSX you can run the command:
Mysql For Mac
The
PASSWORD('root')
sets my password to “root”. Easy to remember right? You can set your password to anything you like, such as PASSWORD('myN3wp@Ssw0rd')
.To stop the server in the terminal run
control + D
. Congratulations! You’ve installed MySQL on OSX, made it accessible from the command line and updated your password for the root user.To start setting up a Laravel application and connect to a database using Sequel Pro you can follow my next tutorial:
Thanks for reading!
Update (9/16/17): Expired passwords
When trying to login to MySQL on OSX recently I ran into the following error:
There are a lot of StackOverflow threads and articles about this, many require writing SQL commands, though that was difficult for me without access to the terminal. In order to alleiviate this I found this SO answer that saved me:
Update 03/29/18:
- Helpful steps for Install MySQL on macOS Sierra as a gist link.
Update 05/14/19:
Mysql For Mac Os
- I recently ran into an error when trying to fire up the MySQL shell:
I found the solution in this homebrew issue. Create an empty directory for this path:
mkdir /usr/local/etc/my.cnf.d