Gary L. Burnore wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Feb 2007 22:19:21 -0500, Jerry Stuckle
> <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> SpreadTooThin wrote:
>>> On Feb 3, 1:14 pm, james.walke...@gmail.com wrote:
>>>> On Feb 2, 10:08 pm, "SpreadTooThin" <bjobrie...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I just installed MySQL on my MAC.
>>>>> I tried to run mysql but it seems that the installation packages did
>>>>> nothing to add it to my path...
>>>>> So what environment variables should I set to have mysql installed
>>>>> properly?
>>>>> computer:~ user$ sudo find / -name mysql -print
>>>>> Password:
>>>>> /usr/local/mysql
>>>>> /usr/local/mysql-standard-5.0.27-osx10.4-powerpc/bin/mysql
>>>>> /usr/local/mysql-standard-5.0.27-osx10.4-powerpc/data/mysql
>>>>> /usr/local/mysql-standard-5.0.27-osx10.4-powerpc/share/mysql
>>>>> my shell is bash.....
>>>>> B.
>>>> Your best bet would be to gohttp://www.mamp.info/en/index.phpand
>>>> download mamp. I was having the same problem.
>>>
>>> And this does what? Or is this spam?
>>>
>> PMJI here.
>>
>> Not at all SPAM. A simple way to install Apache, PhP and MySQL on a Mac.
>>
>> There are similar packages for Windows (WAMP) and Linux (LAMP).
>> Basically, it has pretty much everything you need and is preconfigured
>> to install with as little work as possible.
>>
>> A great way for a beginner to get started.
>
> Only if you use it on a server never intended for public consumption,
> never intended to hold "real" data and only intended as a test box
> until you can do it right.
>
>

Horse hockey. It works fine. There is no difference in downloading the
package vs. the individual products except that you have a default
configuration which will get you started.

Sure, you'll want to change the configuration to suit your particular
purposes. But it saves a lot of work and time and gets you started
quite quickly and easily.

Also, it's a lot better than beating your head against the wall trying
to get all of them installed and talking - like I had to several years ago.

Now I find them all easy to install and configure because I've done it
so many times. But I often still start with LAMP/WAMP because it's a
single download/install. Then reconfigure as necessary. And every one
of my installations is as secure as any other site running the three -
and more secure than a lot.

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