Can’t get Mamp to start MySql when testing Drupal?
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Thursday, February 11th
by andrewsauter
So I’m not a tech blogger, but I have to do design and technical things on a daily basis for my clients to get them to a point where they can actually launch a social media campaign. Lately I’ve been doing a lot with Drupal, it’s a great platform for building a community around a particular brand or subject. I hold a love hate relationship with Drupal. I love it when it’s done, but for FSM’s sake, it’s like’s Dante’s Inferno 9th Circle of Hell with gnashing of the teeth, rivers of blood and the PHP core weeping tears from it’s six eyes to get it working the way you want.
Anyway, I’ve been using MAMP to run a local server so I can design, configure and test community sites before they are ready for public viewing. A pretty common problem all MAMP users have is on occasion the MySql server just won’t start for some reason. Apache will, but not MySql, if you have this problem, this post is for you.
It’s really easy to solve and I don’t understand why there isn’t any documentation on it anywhere. All you have to do is this:
- Make sure MAMP is closed
- Pull up your Activity Monitor (go up to the spotlight and search for it, or go to Applications–>Utilities)
- Find the process “mysqld”
- Select it and Quit–>Force Quit
- Restart MAMP and start servers
- MAMP should run normally
- Go back to painful Drupal development
- ???
- Profit!