haacu.blogg.se - Setup mysql on mac

Make sure you hit the test connection button to verify that you can connect to the server. To connect to your database click on the + icon next to MySQL connections. You should see MySQLWorkbench under your Applications folder now. Since you’ve already installed Homebrew you can install MySQLWorkbench by running brew cask install MySQLWorkbench.It’s much easier to use a client like MySQLWorkbench. However, working in the terminal can be kind of annoying. You can log in by running mysql -u root -p and typing in the password you set earlier.

At this point, you could start using your server immediately through the terminal.

Run mysql_secure_installation if you are ever setting up a database for production use. You can do that by running mysqladmin -u root password ‘password’ Make sure you pick a strong password! Note that this configuration is only for development purposes.

We need to configure the root account on our new server.

We still have a few more set up steps to do. Pretty nifty huh? For now, just start up your server. Similarly, you can stop it with brew services stop mysql. Wait a little bit and you are done! You can start the server by running brew services start mysql.

Once Brew is installed onto your machine run brew install mysql.

Once the installation is done keep the terminal open. Just copy and paste the command at this website into your terminal. Installing Homebrew should be straight forward. Homebrew will handle that for us automagically. Also, we won’t have to keep track of sub dependencies that MySQL needs to run on Mac OS. Why not just download MySQL server ourselves? One benefit of this approach is that we don’t have to worry about looking up the latest MySQL version for our OS. It will do all of the downloading and installation for us.

Firstly, we’re going to install a package manager called Homebrew.

Here is a robust step-by-step process on how to set up a MySQL development environment on MacOS. Hopefully, this helps anyone else in a similar position. This time I’m being proactive and writing down the process here. So I end up googling how to do it and then I piece together instructions from various blogs. I’ve had to do it a couple of times and I always forget how I did it. Installing MySQL server can be a pain on Mac OS.