I have copies of WAMP running on some computers. All copies of WAMP use the same database. So far, this database was in the WAMP-installation on each of the computers and I had to synchronize these databases manually by exporting and importing dump files.
Now I started using an external hard drive on which I made a copy of the database files. When I connect this external hard drive to any of the computers and replace in the file my.ini the path to the database by setting
datadir="G:/mysql/mysql5.7.9/data"
where G is the drive letter of the external hard drive, everything works fine.
However, when I attach the external hard drive to the usb port of my router and make it available on any of my computers with the drive letter Z, and when I adapt the file my.ini by setting
datadir="Z:/mysql/mysql5.7.9/data",
WAMPSERVER does not start up the mysql service and when I try to open phpMyAdmin, it fails with the message that it cannot connect to the MySQL-server.
I would be very grateful if someone can give me some idea why WAMPSERVER does not start up correctly with the network drive and how to overcome this problem.
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For my web database I am trying to create a webserver so I need to make a conf file. When I try to edit my conf file and save it wont let me and says permission denied. I have already given myself read and write access, but I still don't have access to the edit the file. Here is the link to the resource I am using to set up my webserver : https://github.com/orsenthil/adminer-on-mac
I've been working with local web servers and mysql on Mac for over 15 years, so this recommendation is coming from that experience.
OS X updates will destroy your local web development environment every time you do a major OS update... Don't use the built in Apache, PHP and MySQL. Use Homebrew to install independent web server components.
Now to your problems:
/etc/hosts is a file not a directory. Each line is a separate record. The line they gave 127.0.0.1 apache.local just means that your local computer will be accessible from http://apache.local. This hosts file can be used to avoid DNS lookups for any website.
The conf file you are referring to is the Apache VirtualHost file? OS X is very protective about files in etc. Have you tried sudo? If you change the permissions to your user, Apache may not be able to function.
I want to sync (share) A MYSQL database over several computers. My strategy here is to move the database to a DropBox directory so it can be used on multiple machines. I have found a clear description of how to do this on Windows, but the location of the database in the XAMPP directory and the names and locations of the mysql configuration files (my.ini on Windows, my.cnf on mac) are different. The config file directives are different enough that I couldn't get it to work on the mac simply by comparing the changes made in the Windows file.
I tried moving the MYSQL database and changing the my.cnf file as it made sense to me to direct the software to the new location and was unable to get it to work. I also tried leaving the config files along and attempting to redirect xampp with a symlink in the directory where it looked for the database folder. In neither case could I get xampp to fire up mysql.
I have had inconsistent success using symlinks with xampp, using them primarily to redirect xampp to a new php localhost directory. In this case I couldn't get it to do this with mysql.
Does anyone know how to do this, i.e. which setting in the my.cnf file need to be redirected (I've tried about every variation I could think of) or how to get it to follow a smylink to the alternative directory?
Thanks in advance for any help.
--Kenoli
if you are on a Local Area Network you can simply use one of your PCs as a mysql server and connect to the database using the local IP address. If not, I solved this using Hamachi, and using the Hamachi ip address of the pc you want to use as a server. I know this is not a direct response about the symlinks and DropBox, but it solves the problem.
I am running WAMP off of a Google Drive folder, which is working fine on my home computer. But when I try to access it from my work computer that I have synced with Google Drive, I run into problems. I'm trying to change the MySQL Data location to the location on the Google Drive folder. I looked at the solution on these pages:
How to change mysql database directory on WAMP
Change of MySQL database location not working
But it didn't do the trick. MySQL is still looking at the data location on my work computer and not at the one on the Google Drive folder.
Thanks in advance for the help.
The default WAMP Server is not meant to be a portable application.
But a portable application is what you want.
I'd check out the following portable WAMP solutions:
http://www.uniformserver.com/
http://www.uwamp.com/en/
http://zwamp.sourceforge.net/
They will better suit your needs!
I'd install one to the Google Drive and transfer all your projects to it.
Then you will never ever have to worry about something like this coming up.
I created a LAMP stack instance on Google Compute Engine and followed the instructions for setting up FTP as described here.
Most of this worked, I can view files and ftp files to my local workstation FROM the instance. The problem is I can't ftp files TO the instance. Whenever I try to do so Filezilla gives me a permission denied error.
I tried right clicking on the "www" folder in Filezilla to set the permissions but that didn't work.
I'm guessing that write permissions have to be set by SSH-ing to the server and executing some sort of command but I'm not sure how to do that.
Any ideas as to how to go about doing this would be appreciated.
By default the /var/www directory is owned by 'www-data' on the debian instance. You should add your user to the 'www-data' group, and give the directory +rw (read and write) for groups.
Lots of conflicting reports out there when I google; can anyone help?
Basically I want to have the same databases available at work & home PCs, for development porpoises only.
I will only ever be physically at one PC (with a 45 minute trip between) and only then will there be database access. The MySql service will be running on both, but only one will be write/reading the database. Both run Windows 7
I don't need to bother with symlinks, junctions, etc as I have enough space in my DropBox to install all of Xampp there.
Can I do that without corruption?
I use something similar as part of my remote development testing, I have never tried to run a large set of data from this or a production database. Haha, but for testing queries and setting up a couple rows, etc... I use something very similar with little to no problems.
I believe that you can run the portable xampp and mysql from your Dropbox just go to www.portableapps.com to get the xampp and also download the portable launcher from the link on the page.
Let XAMPP server run on your computers, and the data folder saved on your cloud (DropBox, SkyDrive, etc).
You should install XAMPP portable on your root folder (c:) that is the same on all computer you use, then you can move XAMPP data folder (xampp Apache htdocs) and MySQL data (xampp Mysql/data) folder to Dropbox.
Do not use XAMPP installer, but use the portable one.
Configure the folder settings on both Apache and MySQL config file:
C:\xampp\apache\conf\httpd.conf
C:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-ssl.conf
C:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-xampp.conf
C:\xampp\mysql\bin\my.ini
Do the same with other server that you use (PostgreSQL, etc).
Make sure that you:
Always turn off XAMPP server after using on each PC.
Always sync Dropbox before changing PC, that is before logging on and after logging off on different computer.
Mind host / local domain variable on each computer.
Its probably better to use same username for all computer you want to use to run the data folder.
Other method is using PortableAppas.com, that is running the apps directly from USB.