Installing Apache 2 and PHP 5 on OS X
February 26th, 2004I started out tonight to install a parallel Apache2 (2.0.48) and PHP5 (5.0.0b4) on the laptop, to complement the existing Apache/PHP4 install. And I thought I would keep notes as I did it, maybe turn it into an extended blog entry, “Man Conquerors Technology” and all that, you know the type. Who knows, if it really got hairy, maybe I could make into an article for O’reilly. My scholarly ambitions were foiled once again; the software was just too damn easy to install
Build Apache2
> ./configure --enable-mods-shared=ALL > make > make install
Then tweak the conf file a bit. UserDirs should be set to Sites for example. Probably want to set User/Group to www/www. Also note that Port has been totally superceeded by Listen.
Build PHP5
> apt-get install libxml2 > ./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql --with-libxml-dir=/sw --prefix=/usr/local/php5 > make > make install
I first had to upgrade my libxml2, which Fink did smoothly. Then configure wasn’t looking in /sw for my libraries, and rather then figure out why I told it explicitly where to find libxml. I installed into the prefix /usr/local/php5 in order not to step on the toes of my PHP4 install. This is especially useful as I’m finding a number of PEAR module need to be patched to run under PHP5, so I need separate PEAR directories for v4 and v5
So now I’ve got Apache/1.3.29 PHP/4.3.4 (entropy) responding on port 80, and Apache/2.0.48 PHP/5.0.0b4 responding on port 81.
Oh, and Magpie works just fine under PHP5.
Great instructions! Short and it worked for me first time.
Hey, I’ve installed php5 on my OS X, running apache and it works great for file with the .php extension. However, I want to process .htm though php but I can’t seem to find out how to do it. I added this to the httpd.conf with no luck. If you have any idea what else I could try that would be great!
# If php is turned on, we repsect .php and .phps files. AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .htm .phps
makes and installs of apache 2.2.6 and php 5.2.2 went fine.
Apache’s index.html displays OK.
Created test.php with contents in /usr/local/apache2/htdocs and it displays the text in the file. I don’t get the phpinfo output.
Why?
httpd.conf has “LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so” in it and uncommented.
Ideas?