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Configurate Apache, MySQL and PHP on MacOS Lion

Prerequisite:

All you need is a Mac with Lion installed (or other).

Note: if you activate “Web Server” on your mac, Apache will run. But I will also describe how to install MySQL, activate PHP and configure Apache.

Step 1: PHP:

By default, PHP is installed on your mac, but not activated. To activate it:

Copy the httpd.conf.default to httpd.conf in /etc/apache2/ :

cd /etc/apache2

sudo cp httpd.conf.default httpd.conf

Then edit httpd.conf and uncomment this line:

#LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

Step 2: MySQL

Install MySQL (download it here)

Once installed, you can set a root password:

/usr/local/mysql-5.5.18-osx10.6-x86_64/bin/mysqladmin -u root password NewPassword

Step 3 : Apache configuration

If the default configuration don’t fit you, you can edit it:

sudo emacs /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

You can add, for example:

<VirtualHost *>

UseCanonicalName On

ServerName example.com

DocumentRoot /Users/denis/Documents/eip/public/

</VirtualHost>

<Directory /Users/denis/Documents/eip>

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews

AllowOverride All

Order allow,deny

Allow from all

</Directory>

In this case don’t forget to add

127.0.0.1 example.com

in your /etc/hosts file

Note: 

- By default the apache log is here:

tail -f /var/log/apache2/error_log 

- I use <?=$var?> in my php code, in this case short_open_tag should be at On in the php.ini (/etc/php.ini)

- To run mysql in command line:

/usr/local/mysql-5.5.18-osx10.6-x86_64/bin/mysql -h localhost -u root -p

- I had some right issues, in this case you can follow this topic:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2001881/correct-owner-group-permissions-for-apache-2-site-files-folders-under-mac-os-x

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