Leopard’s web server

27 October 2007 · 3 comments

I run various installs on my own Mac of WordPress And Docuwiki, and occasionally other software. This allows me to carry out local testing and development. Mostly these involve some version of PHP and MySQL (and now I realise I didn’t back up the MySQL databases before I wiped my MacBook Pro — oh well). [...]

 

I run various installs on my own Mac of WordPress And Docuwiki, and occasionally other software. This allows me to carry out local testing and development.

Mostly these involve some version of PHP and MySQL (and now I realise I didn’t back up the MySQL databases before I wiped my MacBook Pro — oh well).

PHP is moving across from version 4 to version 5, so I was wondering what Leopard brings. I’m also hoping that getting it up and running may be a bit easier than it has been in the past (like maybe an on/off switch in System Prefs, sigh). I still don’t know how easy it’ll be, but the Sillyness, werd. blog reports in Gearing up for Leopard:

If you are a web designer/developer type, and you use the mac as your dev platform of choice, and you are planning on upgrading to Leopard when it drops later today, knowing a couple of things before-hand will be helpful. Namely your shiny new OS now sports Apache 2.2.x and and PHP 5.2.x. This is a huge change.

I’m hoping that this SiteCrafting post will help me get things set up easily:

Apache, MySQL, and PHP on Leopard (Mac OS 10.5):

Apache and PHP are included in Leopard, so the only thing missing is MySQL. To install that, go to MySQL’s site, and download the latest copy for OS X. It’s incredibly simple to install.

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David Harrison 27 October 2007 at 15:45 32

Just be aware that the MySQL preference pane currently doesn’t work in Leopard and the server won’t automatically start on boot.

The install of MySQL will go without a problem and the server will run fine from the command line.

See this MySQL bug report for more info:

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=28854

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Joannou Ng 02 November 2007 at 17:50 33

This will be helpful to some folks:

Migrating MySQL 5.0.45 to Mac OS X 10 .5 Leopard http://blog.tomatocheese.com/archives/2007/11/1/migrating_mysql_to_mac_os_x_leopard/

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Miraz 15 December 2007 at 11:06 19

Thanks David. That was most helpful.

Thanks too, Joannou. I was starting fresh myself, but it’s an excellent link to have.

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