using terminal to connect to localhost:8888

Hi there,

I've been watching this thread hoping one of the experts would drop in, but since they haven't...

What version of php/mysql do you have installed?

It sort of sounds like a config file isn't setup right to direct it to the proper location.

Might see if there's any clues here...

http://realprogrammers.com/hack/SSH/tunneling.html

System-wide configuration— (path: /etc/httpd/httpd.conf) This is the master configuration file. It contains information about the system as a whole—what directories are accessible, what plug-ins are in use, and so on. Changes to the Web server as a whole are included here.

User-directory configuration— (path: /etc/httpd/users/ username.conf ) When the Mac OS X Users System Preference panel creates a new account, it automatically adds a basic configuration file for that user within the /etc/httpd/users directory. This mini configuration file determines the security for the Web pages within a user's Sites folder.

http://www.informit.com/library/content.aspx?b=MacOS_XUnleashed&seqNum=211

Of course that may not apply to where you have the new one installed.

I think you cannot ssh to your machine as root if you didn't enable the root user on your computer (it isn't enabled by default and you shouldn't, unless you have a very good reason to do so).

If you just need a webserver for local testing of webpages you can use MAMP. If you do, simply enter

/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysql -u root -p

It then asks you for your password (root) and you're done (the mysql root user has nothing to do with your systems root user). You can also use phpMyAdmin from the MAMP startpage.

That's the way I do it here and it works flawlessly. The latest MAMP comes with PHP 5.2.6 and MySQL 5.0.41. Place your pages inside /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/someFolder and then you can access them via http://localhost:8888/someFolder. Use localhost:8889 as your MySQL host in your scripts with user root/password root.

Most paths in MAMP are hardcoded, so you have to install it in /Applications (or place an alias of the MAMP folder there).

Hope it helps.

Ralf.

Hi Ralf, und ein herzliches Willkommen zu den Foren! 🙂

Great first post/tip, thanks, and hope to see more of you here! 🙂

You don't have to ssh into MAMP. You connect to your computer via ssh as any user who can execute the mysql command, e.g. ssh nerd2@192.168.1.1, and then run the mysql commandline from my last post. The mysql users are not the same users, you would use to log into your computer, they are completely separate. So you can login as nerd2 and then access mysql as root without problems. You could then remotely access the MAMP hosted pages as http://192.168.1.1:8888/someFolder.

But glad to hear, you're already up and running.

@BDAqua: Thank you for the kind welcome.