Re: Possible to have both MySQL4 and MySQL5 on same machine?

Thanks Ryan, but even just installing it gave errors due to mysqld  
in /opt/local/libexec being overwritten. I don't know whether the  
daemon is the same for both versions of MySQL. After using the -f  
switch and installing it I created the config and pointed the MySQL  
instance at the correct daemon and I also configured it to use a  
different port. When starting the server it seems to choke on  
creating or finding the pid file. I've specified a location for the  
MySQL5 instance of the pid and it manages to delete the file but not  
create a new one so it times out on this section and fails to start  
the server.

If anyone has any good ideas I'd appreciate it.

Tanc

On 07/08/2006, at 3:42 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Aug 7, 2006, at 14:22, Tanc wrote:
>
>> Just wondering if anyone has had any success running an instance  
>> of MySQL4 and an instance of MySQL5 on the same machine (with  
>> different data directories)?
>
> I suppose you would have to configure one (or both) of them to not  
> use the network. Otherwise both would try to use the same port. But  
> there is a config option you can use to disable network access  
> entirely, which is great if you're just using it for testing with  
> say PHP on the same machine.
>