What is PHP
PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.source: www.php.net
Installation on Mac OS 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.- 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)
Remove the two hash marks (#), then save the file and quit TextEdit.
#AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
#AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
- Finally, type sudo apachectl graceful to restart the web server.
Compiling for OS X Server
- Get the latest distributions of Apache and PHP.
- 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
- If you want the compiler to do some optimization, you may also want to add this line:
setenv OPTIM=-O2
- 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
- Type make and make install. This will add a directory to your Apache source directory under src/modules/php4.
- 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
- 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.
