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This entry is not for the technologically faint of heart, which leaves out a large portion of my family and I am really showing off my geek with this entry, however, this took so much energy to accomplish that I feel the need to share it. I have been for nearly three days attempting to install Apache2 and PHP5 on my MacBook Pro. This was a task that I assumed would not be too daunting but nonetheless proved to be. All of the directions that I found make it look easy but I ran into plenty of traps along the way.

I initially started on Marc Liyanage’s page and was going to download the already built packages, but after some reading I decided that I would build the packages myself. I did ultimately use his MySQL build, however.

I did a few searches and did not come up with much but did find the following links:

1. PHPmac (very helpful!)
2. semanticpool
3. a random blog (like mine)
4. Max OSX Hints
5. laughingmeme (more helpful…)

I used part of each of these articles but ultimately what resolved my issue was a workaround on my own (can you feel the pride?). After following the instructions from article one above I was getting an error when trying to start apache. It was telling me that php5 could not find a library that it needed in mysql. When I followed the path there was an extra directory in the path. I went back and looked at my configuration and I can not figure out why the extra tree was in the path but it was. I don’t know of a good .so editor for the mac and thus I created a link to the correct path.

sudo ln -s /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.15.dylib /usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql/

By creating the alias for where the .so file thought the library was supposed to be to where it actually was I was able to get apache to start.

Let the programming begin…

[tags]Apache, PHP, PHP5, Apache2, OS X, Mac, Apple, Linux, Unix[/tags]