On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Grant Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> This would be great if it wasn't just as easy or easier to get a
> webserver running on a Mac.  It comes with Apache installed by
> default, and all you have to do to get it running is click the check
> box in the Sharing pane.  No need to mess with init.d, or run levels
> to make sure it restarts when your computer restarts. :)
>

Yeah, but unless anything's changed, it's a bear to add modules for. PHP is
especially difficult to work with on the default Mac installation of Apache.
With Linux, it's typically just a matter of finding the packages you need in
the package manager (like Synaptic or whatever), installing them, and then
using some GUI to enable Apache for the current runlevel (if the install for
the package doesn't already do that for you). And if you need, say,
mod_cool_thing_here or need to add the GD module to PHP, it's typically just
another package download away. Adding GD to PHP under the Mac means
recompiling PHP, from what I remember.

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