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PHP Laravel 4 Basics Laravel and Databases Database Setup

Posted by Hai Le Quang
Hai Le Quang
5,855 Points

How do i process all of the above procedure if I'm not using Homestead and vagrant?

Because I'm not using Vagrant and Homestead in my setup, How do I connect to mysql. While I'm on terminal, typing mysql returned command not found.

William Li
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points

Linux or Mac user?

Hai Le Quang
Hai Le Quang
5,855 Points

I'm on Mac OS X 10.10

2 Answers

William Li
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points

Have you checked out MAMP? It's the easiest way to get the latest LAMP stack setup on OS X. This is the alternative you should be using if you don't like to use vagrant.

Hai Le Quang
Hai Le Quang
5,855 Points

yes, I'm using Mamp but whatever I'm running Mamp or not, I'm still getting command not found error

William Li
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points

Well, then the mysql executable is not on your $PATH.

export PATH=$PATH:/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin

should fix it.

Hai Le Quang
Hai Le Quang
5,855 Points

yes, It worked with Mamp turned on. Homestead seems to be a headache for me because it keeps pumping up errors while I'm installing, I just need to build my website. many thanks, again

William Li
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points

One more thing, you'll need to enter this command again if you close/re-open Terminal. If you want $PATH variable to always include the mysql bin directory, you need to add the command to your ~/.bash_profile file.

Mat Val
Mat Val
1,041 Points
Mat Val
Mat Val
1,041 Points

Hi, I am in the same situation with windows 10.

bash: mysql: command not found

What should I do?

Thank you

Kristjan Reinsberg
Kristjan Reinsberg
50,960 Points

for example go to your Homstead/ folder Write... vagrant ssh

and now mysql -u -p