MySQL

September 13, 2004 9:29 AM

mysqlfilter: I'm in the midst of installing phpwiki on OS X panther and, because I am following the steps drone-like and have no idea what I am doing. . .

... I get to the part where I change directories to within PHPWiki, a folder called "schemas" and the Macdev Gods beckon me to:

/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql -uroot -p[password you just set in mysql] wiki [there is a greater than sign here] mysql.sql

I understand that I'm using mysqladmin to create a database called wiki, I think, and that something is getting piped into mysql.sql. Possibly.

When I type the command, however, I keep getting this error:

mysql.sql: No such file or directory

There's not a file called "mysql.sql" in this directory. If I slap one in there from another app, I get the same error. So my question is:

1. what obvious mistake am I making?
(I am using the correct password, and can create databases in the same directory with other names)

2. What exactly am I doing here, so I can look up the answer in the docs?

Thank you for your patience.

posted by mecran01 to computers & internet (8 comments total)

That should be a "<" sign--i.e., mysql.sql is being piped into mysql, not the other way around. Presumably, mysql.sql contains the table information for the database.

mysql.sql should be a list of SQL commands; if you don't have it, you'll need to look around for it or figure out what previous step you messed up. :-)

(Pay particular attention to the line: First, for the database, in the PHPwiki distribution that you unpacked there's a directory called "schemas". Go there and issue this command...)
posted by Khalad at 9:41 AM on September 13, 2004

Ah crap. I was issuing the command within the schemas directory, and there is no mysql.sql to be found. But--that does tell me why this isn't working, so thanks!

There is a file called schema.mysql, but when I substitute it for mysql.sql then it tells me "no such command as wiki." Anyway, I'm closer than I was..
posted by mecran01 at 9:48 AM on September 13, 2004

Hey! Here is what worked--

/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql -uroot -pmark88 wiki < schema.mysqlbr>
I had changed mysql to "mysqladmin" thinking there was a typo. and the name of mysql.sql had changed. Woo!

thanks for joggin my noggin.
posted by mecran01 at 9:51 AM on September 13, 2004

FWIW, this would be a good point to mention instiki -- just DL the ".dmg" file and run it. It's great if all you want to do is use a wiki for local notes.
posted by adamrice at 9:57 AM on September 13, 2004

I second instiki. If you're just looking for any wiki this can't be beat. Double Click. There's no step 2. and it looks great to boot.
posted by rschroed at 11:12 AM on September 13, 2004

Instiki is the coolest, but because I'll be using this to store and collaborate on documents among the tech-phobic, I need the ability to create unique users and attach discrete documents. Plus, a windoze user had intermittent connectivity problems with Instiki that I wasn't able to track down.
posted by mecran01 at 11:20 AM on September 13, 2004

I really want to start using Instiki, but I invested a lot of time in VoodooPad, which can export to text, HTML, and RTF. Anyone know of any easy way, besides cut and paste, to get all that stuff into Instiki?
posted by josh at 1:10 PM on September 13, 2004

PHPWiki is very good. It just has that annoying intermediate step where you have to inject the schema yourself ;-)
posted by wackybrit at 1:18 PM on September 13, 2004