This section contains notes and hints specific to
installing PHP on Mac OS X Server.
There are a few pre-packaged and pre-compiled versions
of PHP for Mac OS X. This can help in setting up a standard
configuration, but if you need to have a different set of
features (such as a secure server, or a different database
driver), you may need to build PHP and/or your web server
yourself. If you are unfamiliar with building and compiling
your own software, it's worth checking whether somebody has
already built a packaged version of PHP with the features
you need.
There are two slightly different versions of Mac OS X,
client and server. The following is for OS X Server.
Those tips are graciously provided by Marc
Liyanage.
The PHP module for the Apache web server included in
Mac OS X. This version includes support for the MySQL and
PostgreSQL databases.
NOTE: Be careful when you do this, you could screw up
your Apache web server!
Do this to install:
1. Open a terminal window
2. Type "wget
http://www.diax.ch/users/liyanage/software/macosx/libphp4.so.gz",
wait for download to finish
3. Type "gunzip libphp4.so.gz"
4. Type "sudo apxs -i -a -n php4 libphp4.so"
#AddType application/x-httpd-php .php #AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps |
Finally, type "sudo apachectl
graceful" to restart the web server.
PHP should now be up and running. You can test it by
dropping a file into your "Sites" folder which is called
"test.php". 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.