Comments on: WordPress on Mac Part 3: Installing WordPress

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:39:54 +0000

A truly awesome explanation so far!

But for some reason CocoaMySQL reports “Unable to connect to localhost. Be sure that the address is correct and you have sufficient privileges”

Im not the most web savvy guy and im quite gutted i cant overcome what appears to be pretty simple compared to the last part of the tutorial.

All help much appreciated many thanks

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 21:09:55 +0000

Thanks for the tut. Kept me busy for the btter part of the day. Unfortunately it’s a pain in the ass with permalinks. I imported my blog’s 30M db but it’s unworkable. Evey link I use takes me online :) Thanks for the experience anyway.

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 29 May 2007 17:39:58 +0000

Yeah, good one!
But, you seem to have forgotten Step 5: Permalinks!

Oops..

By: Rosalina Yukari Yoshida

Rosalina Yukari Yoshida — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:07:22 +0000

Hello Melvin! I was going through the installation and when that CocoaMySQL connection window came I typed as said and this message appeared and I couldn’t continue:

Unable to connect to host localhost.
Be sure that the address is correct and that you have the necessary privileges.
MySQL said: Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/tmp/mysql.sock’ (2)

Did I do something wront?

Note that I’m almost completely naive about web development.

Thanks in advance and I like the look of your site.

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 03:34:09 +0000

This guide worked perfectly, I was so impressed with the ease that I linked your blog/site, to mine so the people that see my blog can experience yours. Hopefully you don’t mind and if you do, let me know and I will remove it.

Josh