MAMP on Catalina

[englishpremier]

I'm having trouble with MAMP on Catalina.

I have a very old version 3.5 installed, and randomly it can no longer connect to the Mysql database, the error I'm getting is:

Checking the MySQL databases failed.

Error message:

/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysqlcheck: Got error: 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock' (62) when trying to connect

An internet search throws up a few things such as deleting the log files and even the sock file itself. None of those have worked for me.

I can't install a new version until I get this version working.

Without this I don't have a webserver for development.

 

[englishpremier]

I think I sorted it. Most of the information online is acting as if MySQL is installed on the Mac, but MAMP has MySQL bundled with it. It's not installed anywhere else on the system.

I had to manually start MySQL from the applications/mamp/library/bin/ folder. That then allowed me to update/upgrade it. Now it works automatically when opening/closing MAMP (which I've upgraded to v5.7).