If you need a dev-environment to learn PHP and you aren’t very skilled in the OSX base-system/unix terminal, it might be better to opt for an all-in-one solution like XAMPP (or one of the other packages listed in the 2nd comment).
Good luck !

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Last login: Sat Apr 18 19:43:10 on ttys000
Ditko:~ Ditko$ sudo port selfupdate

WARNING: Improper use of the sudo command could lead to data loss
or the deletion of important system files. Please double-check your
typing when using sudo. Type “man sudo” for more information.

To proceed, enter your password, or type Ctrl-C to abort.

Password:
Sorry, try again.
Password:
Sorry, try again.
Password:

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Any ideas of what I might be doing wrong? When I type, nothing appears in the terminal following the word ‘Password:’

Any help?
Thanks

Apache doesn’t add the Sites directory; OSX adds the directory to your userfolder if a new useraccount is created.
Apache does load it into the configuration. To enable this do the following:
make sure the following module is loaded in your httpd.conf:

LoadModule userdir_module modules/mod_userdir.so

You now have to add the following line to the httpd.conf to direct apache to the right subfolder below the userdir:

UserDir Sites

To set the permissions correctly you’ll have the following to the httpd.conf too

<Directory "/Users/username/">
    Options None
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>
 
<Directory "/Users/username/Sites/">
    Options Indexes MultiViews
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

After restarting your webserver with sudo apachectl restart, calling the URL: http://localhost/~username should direct you to the /Users/username/Sites folder.

The rights have to be set for each user; this won’t work automatically anymore. If there is enough response I could write a post on how to fix some of this.

PHP didn’t function as expected until I added:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html

To the end of the httpd.conf file as you explained to Ari. Now all works.

Wondering how to set up Apache to create a new site directory for each added user as the default Apple configuration does?

Joseph

Did you stop the current running version of “Websharing” (The shipped version of Apache2).?
you could check this by running:

ps waux|grep httpd

If you see /usr/bin/httpd in this list, you need to type

sudo apachectl-leopard stop

or turn off “Web sharing” from the “system preferences” -> “Sharing” tab.
then (re)start the newly installed apache:

sudo apachectl restart

Then try the testpage again….
Good luck!

• Make sure MySQL is installed; this is a prerequisite for compiling PHP with MySQL support.
• The explanation is tested on Intel systems only, so If your using PPC, I can’t be of any help.

Hope this gives you some leads…

After following your direction my “infophp.php” file is still displaying my old php version php 5.2.6.

Strangely enough I can navigate to the php 5.2.8 directory in /opt/local/
and it’s link as “/opt/local/php”.

Typing “which php” as root generates “/usr/bin/php” which is a link to “/opt/local/php-5.2.8/bin/php”

Am I missing a step here?

Jan

configure: error: mysql configure failed. Please check config.log for more information.

I checked the config.log, and there are actually several errors mentioned. Lots of them seem to have to do with finding files related to gcc.

Are these important, or should I just ignore the errors and continue?

Thanks,
John

Please have a look in your /opt/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf and change th following line from the main block (the one that points to your web-directory) from

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    # AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
    # It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:
    #   Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
    #
    AllowOverride None

to the following:

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    # AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
    # It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:
    #   Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
    #
    AllowOverride All

And make sure to have the following set or included in the same file:

<IfModule php5_module>
	AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
	AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
 
	<IfModule dir_module>
		DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
	</IfModule>
</IfModule>

Hope it will get you better results now….
Cheers!

I followed your instructions and all seemed to work. However I now do not seem to have the correct permissions to browse sites on my machine. It states “You don’t have permission to access…”.

I have already updated my DocumentRoot in httpd.conf.

Any recommendations?

Thanks,
Ari.