Having a pretty rough time getting php5 installed

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 11, 2008, at 09:20, Chris Janton wrote:

> On 2008-08-10 , at 17:50 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> The preferred location for my.cnf for MacPorts mysql5 is /opt/local/
>> etc/mysql5/my.cnf. Or it will read /etc/my.cnf if present.
>> Sample configuration files are provided in /opt/local/share/mysql5/
>> mysql which you can copy to create your own config.
>
> How is it "preferred" over any other location?

It is at least preferred by me, because I want a configuration file  
which only MacPorts MySQL, not any other MySQL, will read. Your needs  
may be different.


> By convention all MacPorts is in /opt/local.
> The MacPorts version of MySQL will look in /opt/local/etc for my.cnf
>
> By observation all versions of MySQL (Apple, MySQL, MacPorts, Fink,  
> etc.) will also look in /etc/ for my.cnf.
>
> If you want to keep your my.cnf in a place that all versions will  
> find, MacPorts installed or not, it is far
> easier to keep the configuration in /etc - you get "bit" a lot less  
> that way ;-)