If you want to restart the server, simply click to turn it off, wait a minute or so, then turn it back on again. If the server is already started, the button will change to “Stop MySQL Server”. Choose the “MySQL” preference panel, then click on the “Start MySQL Server” button to start MySQL Server on Mac. To do that, simply go to the  Apple menu and open System Preferences. Of course, you can also start and stop the MySQL server from the bundled preference panel. Start, Stop, Restart MySQL from Mac OS Preference Panel Those interested can also follow a workaround posted to StackOverflow here to automatically load MySQL on boot in OS X El Capitan or Yosemite. Future versions of the MySQL installer will undoubtedly fix this for OS X but in the meantime if you get the installation error, either customize the installer and avoid the startup item, or ignore the error and start and stop mysql yourself when it’s needed. You can download the latest version of MySQL for Mac OS X here. Of course, these can be combined with starting and stopping Apache server if your intention is to setup a local web development environment. Sudo /usr/local/mysql/support-files/rver restart Sudo /usr/local/mysql/support-files/rver stop Restart MySQL Sudo /usr/local/mysql/support-files/rver start Stop MySQL Be sure to enter the command onto a single line, sudo obviously requires an administrator password to be entered.

Hre are the three basic commands to start, stop, and restart MySQL in Mac OS X, including OS X El Capitan and OS X Yosemite.

If it is running you should see either “httpd.exe” or “apache.Starting, Stopping, Restarting MySQL on Mac OS X.

Click on either the process tab or the details tab depending on your version of windows.

Press the following keys: Ctrl + Shift + Esc.

How to Check if Apache is Running on Windows On Red Hat based systems (RHEL/CentOS/Fedora/Rocky) use this command:

On Debian based systems ( including Ubuntu ) use the following command: If you are running systemd and you want to check the status of the service you can run the following. This command should match either of those. The name will either be “httpd” or “apache”. Probably the easiest way to check if the Apache web server is running on Linux is to use the following command. How to Check if Apache is Running on Linux We are going to show you how to do this on both Linux and on Windows. It is easy to check if Apache is running.

Mac check apache status