Comments on: Mysql Database Server Installation and Configuration in Ubuntu

By: DaveE

DaveE — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:04:18 +0000

Another Greenhorn. I have a LAMP installed on my Windows XP that I have had running for years, configuring websites before uploading them online. Now, having Meerkat 10.10 installed (dual booting with my XP) along with a LAMP, I have Apache2 and PHP working. To do this, I had to mount my existing Windows NTFS partition so it would recognize my websites under localhost, which I repointed from /var/www to my existing website directory /media/Sokkit/.

Now, after installing MySql, I cannot get it to recognize my existing databases, already installed in XP under the same partition: /media/Sokkit/Sokkit/mysql4/data. Can someone advise what configurations are required to repoint the default database directory to my existing one, along with any permissions I might have to change on the databases? Being a Greenhorn, I would really appreciate if I need to change anything, if you would provide how I can find the existing settings too, so I know what I am changing to what?

Thanks,

By: Randy

Randy — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:42:52 +0000

Okay so here goes a greenhorn looking for some help. I have installed Ubuntu 10.10 on a virtual drive (using VMWare). When I installed the ISO onto the virtual drive, it does not install LAMP, openSSH sevrer nor mySQL. Is there a way to manually install this from the Ubuntu 10.10-AMD64 ISO or the DvD I wrote? I am using the VMWare on a Windows 7 environment. I can get to the point of pinging the outside world, so I am good to that point. Any help is appreciated.

By: Alexis

Alexis — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 05:03:50 +0000

The 2nd comment did the trick for me. You’re my hero too.

By: superkey

superkey — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:01:20 +0000

Grant and Simon Taylor, you must start the daemon before logging in; remember, you are trying to log into the MySQL database management, not the MySQL user.

By: iyanla

iyanla — Mon, 24 May 2010 04:02:54 +0000

Hi,
I want to edit innodb_lock_wait_timeout from the default value of 50 to 500.
But it seemed like i cant change it. I tried this using these command. sudo vi /etc/mysql/my.cnf and paste innodb_lock_wait_timeout=500

Please help.
Thanks

By: muhammad-hafiz

muhammad-hafiz — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 07:26:31 +0000

Hi.
I have a question. After I do #bind=127.0.0.1 and in my.cnf and put a new line in /etc/hosts like this:

127.0.0.1 (hostname) localhost.localdomain localhost
127.0.0.1 ubuntuseekers me.newdomain.com me (alias) <- new line in /etc/hosts

After done 2 steps above, I still can't open the new domain at another PC?
Can you assist me, and please e-mail me your answers.
Thanks in advance

By: Omar

Omar — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:20:16 +0000

Hi,
i have installed mysql server and it’s working fine, any idea how i can disable it from auto starting as a service.
i am new to ubuntu so maybe this is an ubuntu thing!
thanks in advance

By: Henk

Henk — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:03:41 +0000

Hi, I am trying to use an alternate my.cnf file(/etc/mysql/my2.cnf), but the “CONF=/etc/mysql/my2.cnf” statement in /etc/init.d/mysql does not appear to do anything, and the original file (/etc/mysql/my.cnf) is used instead.

Any ideas?

By: Grant

Grant — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:35:55 +0000

Hello,

How are you logging into mysql. Is it something like this?

$ mysql -u root -p

By: Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:30:25 +0000

Hi,

I get the same error:
mysqladmin: connect to server at ‘localhost’ failed
error: ‘Access denied for user ‘root’@’localhost’ (using password: NO)’

Don’t get it!

Cheers

By: Grant

Grant — Wed, 06 May 2009 13:26:54 +0000

Hello

I am getting some errors that I cannot understand/resolve:

I am trying to reset the root password for mysql and this happens

mysqladmin: connect to server at ‘localhost’ failed
error: ‘Access denied for user ‘root’@'localhost’ (using password: NO)’

How do I fix this.

By: Rabindra

Rabindra — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:52:12 +0000

thanks for the solution

By: Anton

Anton — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:50:13 +0000

Thanx!!! It almost worked… BUT I have a problem: after I configured directory privileges and apparmor and MYSQL conf file - everything seems to work fine. BUT the problem is - I can not create NEW DATABASES - it tells me error#13. Does anybody know something about this problem?

Thanks in advance!

By: Somnuk

Somnuk — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:38:05 +0000

Greate nickrud, you really help me.

By: sergey

sergey — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:21:46 +0000

Thanks! It works!!!

By: sarang

sarang — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:53:28 +0000

Hey

One of our application developer requested to change the ownership of my.cnf file from root to mysql user and mysql group.

I was thinking about it could not think of any reason why I cannot do this.

Would this be ok or is there a reason why we shoulc have /etc/my.cnf owned by root.

Let me know.
Thanks,
SArang

By: HaC|away

HaC|away — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:53:46 +0000

Another thing you should not forget is to restart /etc/init.d/apparmor after changing the /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.mysqld file. I wondered why it did not work

By: Chris Chua

Chris Chua — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:32:30 +0000

Thank you so so so so soooo much, nickrud. Your comment saved me. I’ve been trying this for the past 3 hours and it’s 5am (over here) now. I wonder where to look for such gotchas like that… How would a newbie like me know about apparmor? It’s even a standard and I had no clue it existed…

By: nickrud

nickrud — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:32:34 +0000

Since apparmor is now standard in ubuntu (at least since hardy, which is the release I’m working with now) you will also have to make a change to /etc/apparmor/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.mysqld as well in order to change the datadir. I needed to add the lines

/home/mysql/ r,
/home/mysql/** rwk,

to enable the correct access permissions to the new data directory.

By: Admin

Admin — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:14:55 +0000

you need to make sure you have vi editor installed in your machine otherwise install vi using the following command

#apt-get install vim

Now you need to edit the file using the following command

sudo vi /etc/mysql/my.cnf

If you install mysql in debian or ubuntu from packages you will find the above file without any problem.

Please give us which operating system you are running and how did you installed mysql server in your machine.