Installing PHP on Panther... HELP

Funny, Mac OS X comes with php installed. And Apache does seem to have php info in its config files.

Did you try using the supplied php components before trying to install others?

 

Um, thats server buddy, the Desktop Mac OS X doesn't have PHP installed. But he does have something about Apache's files, did you edit them so they know to load PHP as a plug-in.

 

Umm, I'm not on a server version and I have php.

I checked before I posted.

 

Where? While we find out if php is default with the Desktop OS X, you need to edit the config files for Apache to point to your install of PHP.

 

OS X Client comes with PHP 4.0.6, which is far to old for most perposes, I personally have Apache 1.3.33 and PHP 4.3.10 with GD support (Updating later today probably) compiled from source.

 

I'm running 10.3.8 and have:

$ php -version
PHP 4.3.10 (cli) (built: Jan 23 2005 21:23:17)
Copyright (c) 1997-2004 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v1.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2004 Zend Technologies

as the version of php provided with "Desktop" OS X.

 

Try the old fashioned way. Worked for me and doesn't touch the Apple Apache install.

http://www.phpmac.com/articles.php?view=213

 

Check out MAMP

 

Obviously they have updated it..

 

Yes, OS X 10.3 Client does come with a recent version of PHP installed.
Here are some instructions for getting it enabled:
http://aliandcedar.com/cedar/computer-stuff/enable-php-in-os-x/

Also, be sure you turn Personal Web Sharing (apache) off and on after changing the conf file, so that the changes take place.

Lee Tom

 

Looks like I'm a bit late for this one but I encountered a reasonable degree of frustration trying to get Tomcat and mySQL installed for Panther, mostly because I am not familiar with the configuration process for Apache. While most forums recommended running through the installation instructions provided on Entropy (which is a good source of information), I eventually found Server Logistics who provides free downloads of mySQL, Tomcat, Apache 2 and PHP4 as Panther Installer Packages. This has the advantage that applications are easy to install, all play nicely together (no need to configure Tomcat manually for Apache, for example, as it is done automatically) and also comes with System Preference control panels for turning these applications on/off without needing to open the Terminal.

Yeah, it's the easy way out but it got me up and running in an hour or so for all these applications.

 

you could save yourself all the trouble, and just turned on apache and installed the php program you wanted.

 

I just downloaded the latest build of PHP and of mysql and it all installed perfectly. The only thing I had to do on reboot was turn on personal web sharing in preferences and I am solid. Pretty damn easy. Running 10.3.8.