How to install PHP/MySQL on Mac OS 10.5 For web development purposes, the ability to test your pages on your local machine can be very valuable. This tutorial shows you how you can enable PHP and MySQL on your Mac OS 10.5 machine giving you the ability to test all the dynamic pages you create using WebAssist products without having to upload to a remote server. What Do You Need to Start? Mac OS 10.5.x - Intel processors TextWrangler available as a free download from http://barebones.com/products/textwrangler/download.shtml 10.5 MySQL Installer package available from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html#macosx-dmg Turning on Apache Mac OS 10.5 and higher machines come with the Apache server preinstalled. For this stage of the tutorial, we simply need to turn on the server. 1. From the Apple menu select System Preferences. 2. Select Sharing. 3. Select the Web Sharing checkbox to start the Web Sharing service. 4. Close System Preferences.
Install PHP PHP for Apache is preinstalled on Mac OS 10.4 and higher. In order to configure PHP as your testing server, a few minor modifications will need to be made. Note: These steps assume you have already installed a copy of TextWrangler on your machine. 1. Open TextWrangler. 2. From the File menu, select Open Hidden. 3. In the Open dialog window, select the Macintosh HD. 4. Select private. 5. Select etc. 6. Open the apache2 folder. 7. Select the httpd.conf file. 8. Click Open. This opens the main configuration file for Apache. Since this is a hidden file, it will be locked when opened. 1. Click the Make Modifiable icon to unlock this file. If Line numbers are not already displayed in TextWrangler, you will want to change this setting to save time. 2. From the View option select Test Display. 3. Select Show Line Numbers. 4. Scroll to Line 114. 5. Remove the # from #LoadModule php5_module. Page 2 of 5
6. From the File menu select Save. Note: When attempting to save this file, you may be prompted to enter your Administrator password. 7. Close TextWrangler. Install MySQL The next step after enabling PHP on your machine is to install the MySQL Server package. Once you have downloaded the appropriate package for your machine, there are just a few steps to take for installation. Note: Make sure that you download the correct package for your machine: Mac with 64-bit processor download Mac OS X 10.5 (x86_64) All other OS 10.5 machines download Mac OS X 10.5 (x86) 1. Once the download is complete open the downloaded file. 2. Double-click on the installer file. 3. Select Continue on the Introduction step. 4. Select Continue after reviewing the Read Me information. 5. Select Continue after reading the Software License Agreement. 6. Select Agree to agree to the License Agreement. 7. Click Install. Once the installation has completed there are just a few more changes to make. Creating the Start/Stop MySQL Server preference The MySQL package includes an optional file that you can run which will install an option in your System Preferences to start and stop the MySQL service. This can be very useful and it is recommended that you install it. 1. Open the downloaded MySQL package. 2. Double-click the MySQL.prefPane file. 3. When asked if you want to install this file, click OK. Page 3 of 5
Once the installation is complete you will notice a MySQL entry in the Other category of the System Preferences. Modifying the MySQL Server Settings The last step in this process will be to configure a few settings for the MySQL server including the highly recommended server password. 1. Open the Finder. 2. Select the Applications folder. 3. Select the Utilities folder. 4. Double-click to open Terminal. 5. Enter the following command in the Terminal window. cd /usr/local/mysql 6. Then press Return. 7. In the next line enter the following. sudo./bin/mysqld_safe 8. Enter your computer s administrator password. Note: When entering your password, Terminal will not display your entry even though it is receiving your password. 9. Press Ctrl +Z on your keyboard. 10. Enter bg. 11. Press Return. 12. Enter exit. 13. Press Return. 14. Open System Preferences. Page 4 of 5
15. Select the MySQL button. 16. Click Start on the MySQL Services button. 17. Return to Terminal. 18. Enter the following code. /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql uroot 19. Press Return. 20. Enter the following code. SHOW DATABASES; 21. Press Return. MySQL will then list all the databases stored on the MySQL server. 22. Enter the following code. use mysql 23. Press Return. 24. Enter the following code to set the password for your MySQL Server. SET PASSWORD FOR root@localhost = PASSWORD( password ); Note: Where it says password, enter the password you want to use for your MySQL server. 25. Press Return. If the password change was successful the next line will read as follows. Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) Congratulations! Your installation is now complete! Page 5 of 5