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I have a mac osx lion. I have xampp running (i.e. I click on the icon and then click mysql and the red dot becomes green). From there I don’t know how to go into the terminal and create a databse. So how do I check that mysql is even installed, from the terminal?
you can log into mysql with the command:
you will then be prompted for a password; if mysql is not installed you will get an error saying command not found or something similar.
By default, XAMPP will be installed in
/Applications/XAMPP/, make sure to include the correct path: