Re: Enabling PHP and Apache in Leopard

[Greg Sharp]

Shay is right about considering your needs for PHP & MySQL.

If this is just for personal testing on a local machine then using MAMP
(free) or MAMP Pro (small shareware cost) which provides even more features
is worth checking out. It provides a much better version of PHP than Apples.
You can test sites under PHP4 or PHP 5. It provides all the admin interfaces
you need to easily host a site. It even lets you activate Apples UNIX based
mail server to allow testing of mail scripts in real time. For a newbie to
servers you can't get any easier + it doesn't interferes in any way with
Apple's version of PHP/Apache + works perfect in Leopard

If you need this for a production server then you'll have to take the long
road as mentioned in your earlier post or else check out the Entropy version
of PHP. Can be installed like any other application , easy to set up but
unfortunately a Leopard compatible version is only in beta not release yet.
Just the same may be worth checking out.

Whichever way you go you'll end up with a much better version of PHP than
the dumbed down version Apple supplies. Trust me.


-- 

All the best

Greg Sharp
President/Webmaster
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG)
http://www.australian.macusersgroup.org

> 


-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List --
Archives - 
Guidelines - 
Unsubscribe - 

Re: Enabling PHP and Apache in Leopard

[Shay Telfer]

Colin Gordon wrote:

 Hi,
 Can anyone help me with what's required to set up a web server using
 Apache with the pre-installed php, mysql components in Leopard.
 I've found a website explaining what to do, however it involves editing
 hidden system files which I am more than a little dubious about tackling.
 Is there an easy / safe way to do this.

 Here's the site I found:

 http://foundationphp.com/tutorials/php_leopard.php

 Any help appreciated.

 Regards
 Colin Gordon
 GORDON DESIGN


Yes, that's pretty much what you do. They're not really 'hidden 
system files', they're fairly standard open source components, you 
just need to edit the configuration to turn on PHP.


I guess the question is, why do you want PHP and MySQL? Presumably 
you're installing some other software/web pages that needs them, 
which will no doubt require more setup, which may not be as easy...


Have fun,
Shay
--
=== Shay  Telfer 
 Perth, Western Australia   Technomancer  The love of liberty is the love
 Opinions for hire  [POQ] of others; the love of power is
 http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt

-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List --
Archives - 
Guidelines - 
Unsubscribe - 

Enabling PHP and Apache in Leopard

[Colin Gordon]

Hi,
Can anyone help me with what's required to set up a web server using  
Apache with the pre-installed php, mysql components in Leopard.
I've found a website explaining what to do, however it involves  
editing hidden system files which I am more than a little dubious  
about tackling.

Is there an easy / safe way to do this.

Here's the site I found:

http://foundationphp.com/tutorials/php_leopard.php

Any help appreciated.

Regards
Colin Gordon
GORDON DESIGN

-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List --
Archives - 
Guidelines - 
Unsubscribe -