Comments on: Installing PHP and Apache on Mac OSX – that was (pretty) easy

By: Prateek

Prateek — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:50:23 +0000

Was very helpful! Thanks so much

By: Avinash Pawar

Avinash Pawar — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 05:14:37 +0000

Thanks very much — great and very helpful.

By: junkiest

junkiest — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:56:40 +0000

Nice tutorial…. thanks !!!

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By: MrNewbie

MrNewbie — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 14:37:57 +0000

hi i tried following the instruction provide. the install seemed to work fine but i keep getting a forbidden error
any suggestion would be appreciated. when i attempted to view my code in the browser

By: MrNewbie

MrNewbie — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 14:36:30 +0000

hi i tried following the instruction provide. the install seemed to work fine but i keep getting a forbidden error
any suggestion would be appreciated.

By: Chirayu

Chirayu — Fri, 06 May 2011 04:36:32 +0000

This is great tutorial. But I am lover of using default installation for the PHP and APACHE what is pre configured. It is noted here that using pre-configured PHP gives issues with GD Library. I need to use GD libraries in my most of applications.

Can somebody suggest how to install GD library in the present installed PHP and recompile the PHP to use with? It will be the great help for me.

Thanks

By: Luke

Luke — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 12:27:18 +0000

Figured you missed a few bits so I’d add them here,

it’s worth changing the Index in your httpd.conf

sudo vi /opt/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf

DirectoryIndex index.html

changes to..

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html

Also I added aliases for apachestart, apachestop, apacherestart in my ~/.bash_profile

alias apachestart=”sudo /opt/local/etc/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.apache2/apache2.wrapper start”
alias apachestop=”sudo /opt/local/etc/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.apache2/apache2.wrapper stop”
alias apacherestart=”sudo /opt/local/etc/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.apache2/apache2.wrapper restart”

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By: Prashant

Prashant — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:24:21 +0000

Hi there,

Thanks for the nice article. It was useful.

I have a question, hope someone can help answering it. I am using MAC and apache is installed at

/opt/local/apache2

From the httpd.conf file, it seems that apache2 is using

/opt/local/apache2/modules/libphp5.so

module to relate to php pages. However, I do not see a pertinent php.ini file anywhere. There were several in many folders like

/private/etc/php.ini
/opt/local/etc/php5/php.ini-development
/opt/local/var/macports/software/php5/5.3.2_0+apache2+macosx/opt/local/etc/php5/php.ini-development

but I moved all of them to some other name and still my php pages were working from browser as long as the apache server was running. So I am kind of perplexed as to which php.ini file is it using but there are none now left with this name. This is important for me because I have to add an extension=db4.so in order to get Berkeley DB working through my php pages. Hence, I do not know where to add this extension or how to tell to PHP where it should try to look for Berkeley DB because otherwise it gives me the error:

Fatal error: Class ‘Db4′ not found in /opt/local/apache2/htdocs/simple_counter.php on line 3

Thanks in advance,
Prashant