# Pastebin ul5u4Vrq @gchristensen: I got it setup by firstly creating a `my.cnf` file with the following content: [mysqld] datadir=/Users/myuser/mysql_config/mysql_data socket=/Users/myuser/mysql_config/mysql_socket/mysql.sock [mysql] socket=/Users/myuser/mysql_config/mysql_socket/mysql.sock Then ran: `myuser