MySQL

This is a little tutorial on customizing the previous MySQL install found here.

I prefer to have my DB living inside /Users directory, instead of /var or /opt. That's what we are going to achive. The goal is to make MySQL DBs drop here /Users/DB/mysql.

Since we installed MacPorts, let's put it to good use and install Apache2 and PHP5 to replace versions bundled with OS X.

To make PHP database aware and more useful, we will be installing Mysql, PostgreSQL, SQLite and PEAR as extensions, along with many others built by default by MacPorts.