Web Server Setup on my Mac

July 17, 2014 2-minute read

I used MacPorts to handle all of these installations. I guess I should have tried php54 or even php55, but I was partially following instructions here and wanted to just get something working first.

Here’s a list of commands

sudo port -v selfupdate
sudo port upgrade outdated
sudo port install apache2
sudo port install php56 +apache2
sudo port install php56-mysql
sudo port install mysql56-server
sudo port install phpmyadmin +php56

sudo port select mysql mysql56

Setting up mysql

sudo /opt/local/lib/mysql56/bin/mysql_install_db --user mysql
sudo chown -R mysql:mysql /opt/local/var/db/mysql56/ 
sudo chown -R mysql:mysql /opt/local/var/run/mysql56/ 
sudo chown -R mysql:mysql /opt/local/var/log/mysql56/
mysqladmin -u root -p password <new-password>

Setting up PHP to work with apache

sudo port install php56-apache2handler
cd /opt/local/apache2/modules
sudo /opt/local/apache2/bin/apxs -a -e -n php5 mod_php56.so

Update Apache’s httpd.conf file. Search for and modify

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html

Add these lines to httpd.conf too

# For PHP
Include conf/extra/mod_php56.conf

# For phpMyAdmin
Include conf/extra/httpd-phpmyadmin.conf

Create /opt/local/apache2/conf/extra/httpd-phpmyadmin.conf and add the following as contents

AliasMatch ^/phpmyadmin(?:/)?(/.*)?$ "/opt/local/www/phpmyadmin$1"

<Directory "/opt/local/www/phpmyadmin">
    Options -Indexes
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    LanguagePriority en de es fr ja ko pt-br ru 
    ForceLanguagePriority Prefer Fallback
</Directory>

Edit phpMyAdmin config file: /opt/local/www/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = '<new-password>';

Edit this line to AllowNoPassword.

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] = true;

PHP config files

cd /opt/local/etc/php5
sudo cp php.ini-development php.ini

Follow instructions from MacPorts

To use mysqlnd with a local MySQL server, edit /opt/local/etc/php5/php.ini and set mysql.default_socket,
mysqli.default_socket and pdo_mysql.default_socket to the path to your MySQL server's socket file.

For mysql5, use /opt/local/var/run/mysql5/mysqld.sock
For mysql51, use /opt/local/var/run/mysql51/mysqld.sock
For mysql55, use /opt/local/var/run/mysql55/mysqld.sock
For mysql56, use /opt/local/var/run/mysql56/mysqld.sock
For mariadb, use /opt/local/var/run/mariadb/mysqld.sock
For percona, use /opt/local/var/run/percona/mysqld.sock

To prevent auto-starting of the daemons on boot, I did

sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.apache2.plist
sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.mysql56-server.plist

But I believe you could use this too

sudo port unload apache2
sudo port unload mysql-server

Setting up aliases in ~/.bash_profile

alias apachestart="sudo /opt/local/apache2/bin/apachectl -k start"
alias apachestop="sudo /opt/local/apache2/bin/apachectl -k stop"
alias apacherestart="sudo /opt/local/apache2/bin/apachectl -k restart"
alias mysqlstart="sudo /opt/local/lib/mysql56/bin/mysqld_safe &"
alias mysqlstop="mysqladmin -u root -p shutdown"