This short tutorial by tugrulasan will show you how to install MySQL on FreeBSD.
Go to the installation folder cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql56-server carry out the installation command make install clean After a long run of installation edit the below file nano /etc/rc.conf add this line and save&exit mysql_enable="YES" start the server /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server start Set the root password mysqladmin -u root password "YOUR-PASSWORD-GOES-HERE" connect to your server mysql -u root -p Then to see status type in mysql=> STATUS;
Check out the official post here: http://tugrulaslan.com/?p=467
