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Enabling PHP

If you have upgraded from Tiger, you may need to complete this step to get Leopard’s version of Apache to work with UserDir (otherwise ignore this bit):

• Copy your old userdir configurations from /etc/httpd/users/ to /etc/apache2/users/

PHP is normally disabled by the default Apache configuration, so you will need to load up a text editor and then:

• Uncomment LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so in /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

Once you’ve saved this, you’ll need to restart apache. The easiest way to do this is to go to System Preferences > Sharing and to turn Web sharing off then on again.

Installing MySQL

To install MySQL, just follow these steps:

• Download the MySQL OS X disk image from a MySQL mirror
• Mount the image, and install the main package, the startup item package, and then the preferences pane
• Add the mysql bin folder to your path:

  sudo echo 'export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/mysql/bin' >> ~/.bash_profile

• If no /private/etc/php.ini exists, make a copy of php.ini.default
• Update php.ini to point at the new MySQL socket mysql.default_socket = /private/tmp/mysql.sock – do this for both mysql and mysqli.

  mysql.default_socket = /private/tmp/mysql.sock
  mysqli.default_socket = /private/tmp/mysql.sock

Other tips if you having problems with .htaccess

Ensure the following directives are enabled (e.g. look in /etc/apache2/users/username.conf) :

Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All