Compiling for OS X Server
I wanted to update my iMac (osx 10.5.6) from php 5.2.3 to 5.2.9 . I downloaded the source from this site, tried to install with some changes and screwed up my php. Come to find out that you need to use the ./configure command to set everything up JUST RIGHT for you computer. i ran this command in the terminal window while in the unzipped php-5.2.9 directory:
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs --with-curl --with-gd --enable-exif --enable-fastcgi --enable-zip --with-ldap=/usr --with-kerberos=/usr --with-zlib=/usr --enable-ftp --enable-sockets --with-iodbc=/usr --with-config-file-path=/etc --with-openssl --with-xmlrpc --with-xsl=/usr
make
sudo make install (then type your pw)
you can change the settings, but you'd better get it right!
mysql settings:
--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql --with-mysql-sock=/var/mysql --with-mysqli=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config
also, you can check out the apple developers site, that helped me.
if your apache server gets screwed up, use the note above to reinstall apache2, then install php, everything should work fine, it did for me.
Installing for Apache on MacOS X Client
The following instructions will help you install a PHP module for the Apache web server included in MacOS X using the MacOS GUI. This version includes MySQL, PostgreSQL, and iODBC database support, cURL, GD, PDFLib, LDAP, and more. These instructions are graciously provided by » Marc Liyanage.
Warning
Be sure you know what you're doing before advancing beyond this point! You can cause irreparable harm to your Apache installation otherwise.
Note: These instructions will only work with the original Apache web server as shipped by Apple. If you re-built or upgraded your Apache, you will have to build your own PHP module.
To install:
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For Apache 1.3, download:
http://www2.entropy.ch/download/entropy-php-5.2.4-1.tar.gz -
For Apache 2, download:
wget http://www2.entropy.ch/download/entropy-php-5.2.4-1-apache2.tar.gz - Unpack the compressed .tar.gz file, but DO NOT USE StuffIt Expander. Instead, use Apple's BOMArchiveHelper or the command line.
- Double-click the installer package and follow the directions of the installer application.
That's all! PHP should now be up and running. You can test it by dropping a file named test.php into your Sites folder in your home directory. Into that file, write this line: <?php phpinfo() ?>.
Now open up 127.0.0.1/~your_username/test.php in your web browser. You should see a status table with information about the PHP module.
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User Contributed NotesInstalling for Apache on MacOS X Client
nabaja at gmx dot com
27-Feb-2009 08:15
27-Feb-2009 08:15
mdoyle at cooperationireland dot org
07-Apr-2008 02:54
07-Apr-2008 02:54
With OSX 10.5, the bundled version is up to date but didn't come with the modules I needed (notably I wanted the pgsql database extension).
Getting this to work was quite simple in the end, what made it difficult is the build-options for Apache. After searching on google, I found instructions to re-build apache with the following options:
./configure --enable-layout=Darwin --enable-mods-shared=all
(Step 1: download the latest Apache2.2 source files,
Step 2: extract the tarball
Step 3: ./configure --enable-layout=Darwin --enable-mods-shared=all
Step 4: make all
Step 5: sudo make install)
Without this step, when I rebuilt PHP either directly with the source from the PHP.net site or using MacPorts I was getting an error about the wrong architecture like this one:
httpd: Syntax error on line 114 of /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf: Cannot load /usr/libexec/apache2/libphp5.so into server: dlopen(/usr/libexec/apache2/libphp5.so, 10): no suitable image found. Did find:\n\t/usr/libexec/apache2/libphp5.so: mach-o, but wrong architecture
After re-building and Apache with the configuration above and restarting it, everything worked again and I can now use PostgreSQL from within PHP on my MacBook Pro.