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Fix for MAMP when MySQL is not starting

Tuesday, March 7, 2006 I’m currently using MAMP for local PHP development on OS X. It works ok, except for a tendency to bug out when starting up again after first quitting the application once. So if you get the “Error: Could not connect to MySQL server!” notice, here’s a fix:

1. Quit MAMP
2. Open the terminal and type: killall -9 mysqld
3. Restart MAMP