Compiling Apache, PHP & MySQL on Mac OS X

Thanks to http://drewish.com/node/110

This guide walks through the steps necessary to setup PHP on Leopard. The basic steps are installing several prerequisites then recompiling Apache and PHP from source. It could totally bork your system, I'm just writing it down so the next time I need to do this I can remember what I did. I wish I could give credit to all the places I stole bits from but I didn't do a good job of keeping notes early on.

To follow these instructions you need to be running as the root user using the default sh shell. If you've got the correct administrator permissions you can switch users using the sudo command and providing your password.

localhost:~% sudo su -
Password:
sh-3.2# 

Install MacPorts

Follow the directions to install Mac Ports.

Then use port to grab a copy of wget and the GD dependency, jpeg, as well as freetype and t1lib for rendering fonts. You'll probably be in for a half our wait while a bunch of dependencies installed if this is the first time you've installed anything with port:

sh-3.2# /opt/local/bin/port install wget +ssl freetype t1lib jpeg
--->  Fetching expat
--->  Attempting to fetch expat-2.0.1.tar.gz from http://downloads.sourceforge.net/expat

[...]

--->  Fetching jpeg
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for jpeg
--->  Extracting jpeg

--->  Applying patches to jpeg
--->  Configuring jpeg
--->  Building jpeg with target all
--->  Staging jpeg into destroot
--->  Installing jpeg 6b_2
--->  Activating jpeg 6b_2
--->  Cleaning jpeg

Recompile Apache

Rather than just installing Apache from MacPorts I want to rebuild in the native OS X locations so I can use the built-in support. I tried to skip over this step but after wasting a bunch of time finally realized it was important. Grab the latest version of Apache 2.2 and extract it:

sh-3.2# bunzip2 httpd-2.2.11.tar.bz2
sh-3.2# tar xf httpd-2.2.11.tar

 -- OR -- 

sh-3.2# tar xvfz httpd-2.2.11.tar.gz

Compile it:

sh-3.2# cd httpd-2.2.11

sh-3.2# ./configure --enable-layout=Darwin --enable-mods-shared=all

[...]

sh-3.2# make install

Install MySQL

Download and install the official MySQL package for OS X.

Recompile PHP

Download the latest PHP source:

sh-3.2# cd /tmp

sh-3.2# wget http://us.php.net/get/php-5.2.8.tar.bz2/from/this/mirror
--2008-12-15 18:24:23--  http://us.php.net/get/php-5.2.8.tar.bz2/from/this/mirror
Resolving us.php.net... 208.69.120.36
Connecting to us.php.net|208.69.120.36|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://us.php.net/distributions/php-5.2.8.tar.bz2 [following]
--2008-12-15 18:24:28--  http://us.php.net/distributions/php-5.2.8.tar.bz2
Connecting to us.php.net|208.69.120.36|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 9827180 (9.4M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `php-5.2.8.tar.bz2'

100%[======================================>] 9,827,180    466K/s   in 20s     

2008-12-15 18:24:49 (474 KB/s) - `php-5.2.8.tar.bz2' saved [9827180/9827180]

Extract it:

sh-3.2# bunzip2 php-5.2.8.tar.bz2

sh-3.2# tar xf php-5.2.8.tar

Compile it:

sh-3.2# cd php-5.2.8

sh-3.2# MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.5 \
CFLAGS="-arch ppc -arch ppc64 -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -g -Os -pipe -no-cpp-precomp" \
CCFLAGS="-arch ppc -arch ppc64 -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -g -Os -pipe" \
CXXFLAGS="-arch ppc -arch ppc64 -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -g -Os -pipe" \
LDFLAGS="-arch ppc -arch ppc64 -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -bind_at_load"

sh-3.2# ./configure \
--prefix=/usr \

--mandir=/usr/share/man \

--infodir=/usr/share/info \

--with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs \

--with-config-file-path=/etc \

--sysconfdir=/private/etc \

--enable-cli \

--with-curl=/opt/local \

--enable-ftp \

--enable-mbstring \

--enable-mbregex \

--enable-sockets \

--with-ldap=/usr \

--with-kerberos=/usr \

--with-mime-magic=/etc/apache2/magic \

--with-zlib-dir=/usr \

--with-xmlrpc \

--with-xsl=/usr \

--with-iconv=shared,/opt/local \

--with-openssl=shared,/opt/local \

--with-gd \

--with-png-dir=/usr/X11R6 \

--with-xpm-dir=/usr/X11R6 \

--with-jpeg-dir=/opt/local \

--enable-exif \

--with-freetype-dir=/opt/local \

--with-t1lib=/opt/local \

--enable-pdo \

--with-pdo-mysql \

--with-mysql-sock=/var/mysql \

--with-mysqli=/usr/bin/mysql_config \

--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql \

--with-iodbc=/usr \

--with-curl \

--with-config-file-path=/etc \

--sysconfdir=/private/etc

[...]

Thank you for using PHP.

sh-3.2# make install

For what ever reason PHP gets built as php.dSYM so we'll just leave it there and symlink to it so future compiles will work correctly:

sh-3.2# if ( test -e /usr/bin/php && ! test -h /usr/bin/php) ; then mv /usr/bin/php /usr/bin/php.old; fi

sh-3.2# ln -s /usr/bin/php.dSYM /usr/bin/php

Test that PHP has GD installed:

sh-3.2# php -m |grep gd
gd

If you don't already have a php.ini file you'll need to create one by copying the default:

sh-3.2# if ( ! test -e /etc/php.ini ) ; then echo cp /etc/php.ini.default /etc/php.ini; fi

Edit the php.ini so PHP can find the MySQL socket. Find the line with the mysqli.default_socket setting and change it to:

mysqli.default_socket = /opt/local/var/run/mysql5/mysqld.sock

Restart Apache:

sh-3.2# apachectl restart

Clean up

Once you've got everything working correctly you can remove the source code:

sh-3.2# rm -r /tmp/php-5.2.* /tmp/httpd-2.2.*

This it actually pretty optional, when you reboot OS X cleans out the temp directory.

Install MacPorts

Recompile Apache

Install MySQL

Recompile PHP

Clean up

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