Can’t change user options in MySQL Administrator
May be you installed MySQL 5 and you are not able to change user information, schema privileges and resources for your MySQL users using the MySQL Administrator. You select “User Administration” then a...
View ArticleApache 2 + MySQL 5 + PHP 5.3 + phpMyAdmin 3.5.4 installation script for Mac...
Based on the instructions provided by Gilles Fabio I’ve created a complete installation script to install Apache 2, MySQL 5, PHP 5.3 and phpMyAdmin 3.5.4 for Mac OS X using MacPorts. It’s important to...
View ArticleRun shell commands in Mac OS X executing a normal application
Once I installed Apache2+MySQL5+PHP5.3 using MacPorts I wanted to start and stop the services without having to open a terminal window a run the commands myself. This can be achieved creating an...
View ArticleChange root password in MySQL
In GNU/Linux: $ sudo mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables & $ mysql -u root -p #press enter to use a blank password mysql> use mysql; mysql> update user set password=PASSWORD("NEW-ROOT-PASSWORD")...
View ArticleUseful Apache 2 and MySQL 5 service aliases for MacPorts
Those are some aliases I use to start, stop and restart Apache 2 and MySQL on my MacPorts installation done with the installation script I made some time ago. You have to edit “~/.bash_profile” file...
View ArticleIncrease the phpMyAdmin session timeout
Edit your config.inc.php file (in my Ubuntu 12.04 it was located at /etc/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php) and add the following line (where X is the amount of seconds the session will last):...
View ArticleFix ERROR 2006 (HY000) at line ###: MySQL server has gone away
I once had a project with one MySQL table that had over 2 million rows. First time I tried moving that project from one computer to another I had the error “ERROR 2006 (HY000) at line ###: MySQL server...
View ArticleConnect to MySQL over SSH with MySQL Workbench
If you don’t have phpMyAdmin installed on your server or you don’t feel comfortable using it there’s the option to connect over SSH to MySQL with MySQL Workbench. I didn’t know this could be done until...
View ArticleChange WordPress table prefix to avoid SQL injection attacks
WordPress uses a table prefix for each installation in case you want/need to have more than one WordPress in the same database. It uses “wp_” by default but is encouraged to use other string to add...
View ArticleView MySQL server information
With the server up and running: $ mysqladmin variables -u root -p Enter password: +----------------------------+----------------------------+ | Variable_name | Value |...
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