Change port # for mysql on mac

Question

I just installed mysql on a mac running 10.6. The mysql version is 5.1.56. I need to have mysql run on port 3307. This article says we can change the port by modifying this file

Answer 1

I tried a long time to get mysql running on my Mac (OSX 10.11.13) with mysql 5.7.11 to develop wordpress sites on my local machine...

When I used the app duplicator to migrate a website to my local machine I got errors during the database import. This was caused by to stricked sql_mode...

The trick that made it was:

Going to

/usr/local/mysql-5.7.11/support-files/ 

and copy the content from my-default.cnf

and paste it to

/etc/my.cnf (if this file does not exist create it!)

at the very last line of my.cnf I added:

sql_mode="NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION"

Et voilà: sql_mode is changed permanently!

Whoop whoop!