Unix/Mac OS X installs
This section contains notes and hints specific to installing
PHP on Mac OS X Server.
Using Packages
There are a few pre-packaged and pre-compiled versions
of PHP for Mac OS X. This can help in setting up a standard
configuration, but if you need to have a different set of
features (such as a secure server, or a different database
driver), you may need to build PHP and/or your web server
yourself. If you are unfamiliar with building and compiling
your own software, it's worth checking whether somebody
has already built a packaged version of PHP with the features
you need.
Compiling for OS X server
There are two slightly different versions of Mac OS X, client
and server. The following is for OS X Server.
Mac OS X server install.
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Get the latest distributions of Apache
and PHP.
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Untar them, and run the configure program
on Apache like so. ./configure --exec-prefix=/usr \
--localstatedir=/var \
--mandir=/usr/share/man \
--libexecdir=/System/Library/Apache/Modules \
--iconsdir=/System/Library/Apache/Icons \
--includedir=/System/Library/Frameworks/Apache.framework/Versions/1.3/Headers
\
--enable-shared=max \
--enable-module=most \
--target=apache
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If you want the compiler to do some optimization., you
may also want to add this line: setenv OPTIM=-O2
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Next, go to the PHP 4 source directory and configure it.
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--sysconfdir=/etc \
--localstatedir=/var \
--mandir=/usr/share/man \
--with-xml \
--with-apache=/src/apache_1.3.12
If you have any other additions (MySQL, GD, etc.), be
sure to add them here. For the --with-apache string, put
in the path to your apache source directory, for example
/src/apache_1.3.12.
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Type make and make install. This will
add a directory to your Apache source directory under
src/modules/php4.
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Now, reconfigure Apache to build in
PHP 4. ./configure --exec-prefix=/usr \
--localstatedir=/var \
--mandir=/usr/share/man \
--libexecdir=/System/Library/Apache/Modules \
--iconsdir=/System/Library/Apache/Icons \
--includedir=/System/Library/Frameworks/Apache.framework/Versions/1.3/Headers
\
--enable-shared=max \
--enable-module=most \
--target=apache \
--activate-module=src/modules/php4/libphp4.a
You may get a message telling you that libmodphp4.a is
out of date. If so, go to the src/modules/php4 directory
inside your apache source directory and run this command:
ranlib libmodphp4.a. Then go back to the root of the apache
source directory and run the above configure command again.
That'll bring the link table up to date. Run make and
make install again.
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Copy and rename the php.ini-dist file
to your bin directory from your PHP 4 source directory:
cp php.ini-dist /usr/local/bin/php.ini or (if your don't
have a local directory) cp php.ini-dist /usr/bin/php.ini.
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