In addition, a symbolic link to that directory is created as “/usr/local/mysql”.

The MySQL Server will be installed under the “/usr/local/mysql-5.7.11-osx10.9-x86_64” directory. If you forget to do so, you can follow the MySQL website’s How to Reset the Root Password page to reset the root password. Please make a copy of it because you will need it below. Note: When the installation completes, you will see a dialog containing the temporary password for the MySQL root user.

(Strangely, even though I downloaded the 10.10 version, the names of the disk image and package files refer to the 10.9 version.) Open the downloaded “mysql-5.7.11-osx10.10-x86_64.dmg” disk image file and run the “mysql-5.7.11-osx10.9-x86_64.pkg” package inside to install MySQL Server. You don’t need to login or sign up just select the “No thanks, just start my download” link at the bottom. Make sure that your new document root directory and its contents have read permission set for others (for example, “chmod 755” for directories and “chmod 644” for files).ĭownload the free MySQL Community Server distribution I selected the “Mac OS X 10.10 (x86, 64-bit), DMG Archive” package. Restart the Apache HTTP Server for the change to take effect. (The Apache HTTP server is stopped by default.) You can check their versions by opening the Terminal app and running these commands:ĭocumentRoot '/Library/WebServer/Documents' Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite continues to ship with PHP and Apache installed. I have adjusted the instructions for Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite below.Ĭonfigure PHP and Start Apache HTTP Server I have a previous post on setting up Apache on Mac OS X ( Install Apache, PHP, MySQL, and phpMyAdmin on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard) which looks to be helpful, but it was outdated. The only certain solution to the above problem is to run a local web server to host the demo code. The demo Javascript code was attempting to read a text file in the same file location using GET, but the local “file:///” protocol was not recognized as a proper website domain and Chrome assumed it was a cross domain security violation. cross origin) communication, which would occur when a page from one website domain attempts to read data from another domain.

The latest Chrome (and other modern browsers) won’t allow cross domain (a.k.a. When I attempted to browse to it, I encountered the infamous “XMLHttpRequest cannot load file:///” error. I downloaded a HTML5 and Javascript demo.

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