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Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 6:09 pm
by RobertGonzalez
OK then, follow Ambush Commander's instructions and set up a development machine on your computer. It is fast and easy to do and will basically give you all the tools you need to get ready to go live on a host.
Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 6:23 pm
by cypher235
ok the apache server on my computer is working and mysql is installed but im not sure how to configure it, and i couldn't find anything on php.net that said it was for mac os x, so if you can help me out now?
Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 6:24 pm
by RobertGonzalez
PHP Should run on a mac without a problem. If you do have problems, you might to run over to
PHPMac.com to see if they have any information for you.
As for configuring MySQL, it should have asked for some things during installation. Like a root password and ports and such. Once that is done, I would download the MySQL Administrator and MySQL Query Browser from the MySQL web site to administer your DB Server until you get phpMyAdmin set up (which comes after PHP).
Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 6:45 pm
by cypher235
ok when i installed mysql it didn't ask for anything except the license agreement and it just went through an install proccess without doing anything or asking for a password, what was supposed to happen when i installed it?
Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 6:53 pm
by RobertGonzalez
That may mean that you are set up as user 'root' with password '' (empty). Download and install the two MySQL apps from the MySQL website and install them. When asked for a username/password, use 'root' and ''. See if you can get into your database that way.
Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 7:24 pm
by cypher235
ok so i have that installed, now i need help configuring mysql and actually installing php on my computer(since there weren't any binaries for the mac that i could see i downloaded the source code and i don't really know what to do with it)
Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:51 pm
by RobertGonzalez
You are probably not going to need to configure anything for mysql. I would suggest you try connecting to it with the administrator utility.
As for installing PHP from source, you will need to know a little bit about installing software from source in a *nix environment. Unfortunately, I am not that well versed in Unix/Linux to tell you what to do. But I would guess that someone here know how to do it.
Did you happen to check out
PHPMac.com?