PHP: Compiling for MacOS X Client

Last updated: Sun, 25 Nov 2007

Compiling for MacOS X Client

The following instructions will help you install a PHP module for the Apache web server included in MacOS X. This version includes support for the MySQL and PostgreSQL databases. These instructions are graciously provided by » Marc Liyanage.

Warning

Be careful when you do this, you could screw up your Apache web server!

Do this to install:

Open a terminal window.
Type wget http://www.diax.ch/users/liyanage/software/macosx/libphp4.so.gz , wait for the download to finish.
Type gunzip libphp4.so.gz .
Type sudo apxs -i -a -n php4 libphp4.so
Now type sudo open -a TextEdit /etc/httpd/httpd.conf . TextEdit will open with the web server configuration file. Locate these two lines towards the end of the file: (Use the Find command)
```
#AddType application/x-httpd-php .php 
#AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
```
Remove the two hash marks (#), then save the file and quit TextEdit.
Finally, type sudo apachectl graceful to restart the web server.

PHP should now be up and running. You can test it by dropping a file into your Sites folder which is called test.php. Into that file, write this line: <?php phpinfo() ?>.

Now open up 127.0.0.1/~your_username/test.php in your web browser. You should see a status table with information about the PHP module.

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Compiling for MacOS X Client

mdoyle at cooperationireland dot org
07-Apr-2008 10:54


With OSX 10.5, the bundled version is up to date but didn't come with the modules I needed (notably I wanted the pgsql database extension).



Getting this to work was quite simple in the end, what made it difficult is the build-options for Apache. After searching on google, I found instructions to re-build apache with the following options:



./configure --enable-layout=Darwin --enable-mods-shared=all 



(Step 1: download the latest Apache2.2 source files,

 Step 2: extract the tarball

 Step 3: ./configure --enable-layout=Darwin --enable-mods-shared=all 

 Step 4: make all

 Step 5: sudo make install)



Without this step, when I rebuilt PHP either directly with the source from the PHP.net site or using MacPorts I was getting an error about the wrong architecture like this one:



httpd: Syntax error on line 114 of /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf: Cannot load /usr/libexec/apache2/libphp5.so into server: dlopen(/usr/libexec/apache2/libphp5.so, 10): no suitable image found.  Did find:\n\t/usr/libexec/apache2/libphp5.so: mach-o, but wrong architecture



After re-building and Apache with the configuration above and  restarting it, everything worked again and I can now use PostgreSQL from within PHP on my MacBook Pro.

rahul
09-May-2007 03:54


if `wget` isn't installed or not in your path use `curl -O` instead.

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Last updated: Sun, 25 Nov 2007