Mac OS X Documentation does not work

Mac OS X Documentation does not work

by Tiffany Fischer -
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The Documentation on the Moodle website for a Mac does not work. 

https://docs.moodle.org/37/en/install_on_OS_X

When I show grants in the MySQL database, there is no new users privileges granted.  Also, I seen an error that indicates possibly a mysqi library is also needed that is not included in the documentation :

Error: Database connection failed

It is possible that the database is overloaded or otherwise not running properly.

The site administrator should also check that the database details have been correctly specified in config.php

Warning: mysqli::__construct(): (HY000/2002): No such file or directory in /Users/tiffanyfischer/Sites/LMS/moodle/lib/dml/mysqli_native_moodle_database.php on line 79

~Blessings

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Re: Mac OS X Documentation does not work

by Howard Miller -
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Doesn't sound like MySQL was installed properly. How did you install it (that document seems to have some choices)
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Re: Mac OS X Documentation does not work

by Tiffany Fischer -
I followed the directions exactly as they were provided in the moodle documentation.

"Download your version of Mysql from the Mysql site http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/ and install it! The dmg install will allow you to start or stop the MySql server from your system preferences. If you tick the option to start on boot then it may not actually start on boot. This is an on-off issue with OSX."

After the install in the documentation the step to grant privileges to the new user did not work. After I ran the commands I did a show grants; but the new users privileges were not created.

The following moodle document statement makes me think this article is outdated rendering it obsolete:
"If you are not running OSX Server then you will probably need to install Mysql again if Apple issues an upgrade of Yosemite." 
Yosemite was released in 2014.
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