Cannot get the wizard to work on mac OS [#2247329]

Hello everyone,

First off, I am quite new to Drupal and web developing in general.
I am trying here to set up omega on my drupal database so I can get started and edit my own subtheme. I am currently following leveluptuts which are great, but I get stuck at the most interesting point ...! I cant figure why when I am trying to launch the wizard I have this error message coming up:

The drush command 'owiz' could not be found. Run `drush cache-clear drush` to clear the commandfile cache if you have [error]
installed new extensions.
Drush was not able to start (bootstrap) the Drupal database. [error]
Hint: This may occur when Drush is trying to:
* bootstrap a site that has not been installed or does not have a configured database. In this case you can select
another site with a working database setup by specifying the URI to use with the --uri parameter on the command line.
See `drush topic docs-aliases` for details.
* connect the database through a socket. The socket file may be wrong or the php-cli may have no access to it in a
jailed shell. See http://drupal.org/node/1428638 for details.

Drush was attempting to connect to:
Drupal version : 7.27
Site URI : http://default
Database driver : mysql
Database username : root
Database name : drupal
PHP executable : /usr/bin/php
PHP configuration :
PHP OS : Darwin
Drush version : 7.0-dev
Drush temp directory : /tmp
Drush configuration :
Drush alias files :
Drupal root : /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/drupal
Site path : sites/default

I am using a localhost, MAMP, to develop the website. I imagine I must have left something out in the setting up of drush or omega...
However when typing drush help, omega commands appear in the terminal.

Help would be greatly appreciated, I spent all day stuck there and Im really starting to feel desperate lol.

Thanks a lot :)

Comments

Comment #1

fubhy CreditAttribution: fubhy commented 24 April 2014 at 13:55

Do other Drush commands work? For example... Can you enable/disable modules without problems? If that's the case, please ensure that Omega is placed in the right directory (sites/all/themes for example). Once that's done, run "drush cc drush", then try again "drush omega-wizard" (or its short-form "drush owiz").

Comment #2

karolus CreditAttribution: karolus commented 25 April 2014 at 12:35

One thing I have noticed when running Omega wizard on MacOS is that using the proper case in your Terminal commands is vitally important. For a lot of other tasks done there, it's irrelevant, but not in this case. For example, entering file paths such as user/sites/mysites may get you to the proper area, but if the actual case of the folder names are user/Sites/MySite, you probably will get errors running Omega wizard. Once I figured this out, it was smooth sailing.

Comment #3

fubhy CreditAttribution: fubhy commented 25 April 2014 at 13:06

Yes, that's actually a good pointer. Didn't we have an issue for that where other people where experiencing that problem?

Comment #4

fubhy CreditAttribution: fubhy commented 25 April 2014 at 13:07

Here it is:

https://drupal.org/node/2026149#comment-7597133

Comment #5

C13L0 CreditAttribution: C13L0 commented 1 June 2014 at 01:03

Drush has an issue connecting to the database in mamp. This has nothing to do with with Omega 4 though it may seem like it because owiz needs to connect to the database to create the subtheme through drush.

You will need to edit the .bash_profile. Your bash_profile will not be identical to mine as you may use a different php version or different paths but hopefully it will get you started in the right direction.

This is what my .bash_profile looks like:

source ~/.bashrc

[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # Load RVM into a shell session *as a function*  

export PATH="/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin:/Applications/MAMP/bin/php5.5.10/bin:$PATH"

export PATH
export DRUSH_PHP="/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.5.10/bin/php"
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH

Also close out your terminal and mamp and restart.

Comment #6

barrypoore CreditAttribution: barrypoore commented 26 September 2014 at 21:25

I kept getting that error:

Drush was attempting to connect to:
Drupal version : 7.27
....
....
etc

I'm using mamp and the thing that fixed the issue for me was adding mamp's mysql port number in the db connection in settings.php

'port' => '8889',

as soon as I added that it ran like an athlete :)

Comment #7

DamienMcKenna

NH, USA

CreditAttribution: DamienMcKenna commented 30 November 2014 at 15:04

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Active

» Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

A few things to check:

Is Drush using the built-in version of PHP or the one installed from MAMP? You can find out by typing this in the terminal: which php If it says "/usr/bin/php" then you're using the wrong one and need to follow C13L0's info above.
Where are your database settings stored? If it's anything other than sites/default/settings.php you'll need to either tell Drush to use a different hostname directory, e.g. if the settings file is located at sites/mysite/settings.php you would give the argument "--uri mysite" or "-l mysite", or you could add a sites/all/drush/drushrc.php file that contained a line $options['uri'] = 'mysite';