Installing Apache2, PHP5 and MySQL5 on OS X Tiger

Tiger comes bundled with Apache 1.3 and PHP4. While these are still used for web development they are defenetly on the way out. For this reason I have decided to set up a more up to date MAMP installation on my old Powerbook G4. While this was all done on Tiger, it will most likely also work on Leopard.

Preparations

The installation process follows mostly the unix standard. That means that you will want to have the a /usr/local folder made. If you do not have it yet, type the following in terminal:

sudo mkdir /usr/local

The advantage of using local is that whenever a system updates itself it leaves local alone. If you install directly into /usr/bin, there is a chance that a system update will overwrite your installed software with its own update. If you lost me by now, you are probably off downloading a MAMP binary now.

The first step is to retrieve the packages we will need to properly install MAMP. To keep it nice and organized make a folder that will contain the source code, if you do not yet have a designated folder.

mkdir ~/src

We can now start installing MAMP

Installation

MySQL

The first thing that will be installed is MySQL. You can get the latest dmg here. After installing MySQL from the dmg, I also recommend installing Sequelpro if you want a GUI interface to the database. For building MySQL yourself from source check this.

Apache2

Apache comes bundled with OS X. Note that the control panel will only affect the default installation. Starting and stopping your own Apache installation will need some command line work, or some scripting. The following installs Apache 2 into /usr/local/sbin/apache2, if you prefer to install into another folder change the prefix to that folder.

curl -O http://apache.hippo.nl/httpd/httpd-2.2.11.tar.gz
tar xvzf http-2.2.11.tar.gz
cd http-2.2.11/
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/sbin/apache2 --enable-modules=all --enable-mods-shared=all
make
sudo make install
cd ..

Before we continue to build PHP there are some extra libraries that are needed. If you are not interested in building PHP with GD you can probably skip most of them.

Freetype

A Free, High-Quality, and Portable Font Engine. You can learn more about it here.

curl -O http://mirrors.zerg.biz/nongnu/freetype/freetype-2.3.9.tar.gz
tar xvzf freetype-2.3.9.tar.gz
cd freetype-2.3.9/
./configure
make
sudo make install
cd ..


JPEG

Support for jpeg image format

curl -O http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
tar xzf jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
cd jpeg-6b/
cp /usr/share/libtool/config.sub .
cp /usr/share/libtool/config.guess .
./configure --enable-shared
make
sudo make install
cd ..


Libpng

Support for png image format

curl -O ftp://ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/libpng/png/src/libpng-1.2.36.tar.gz
tar xjf libpng-1.2.36.tar.gz
cd libpng-1.2.36/
./configure
make
sudo make install
cd ..


openSSL

Install the latest version of openSSL

curl -O http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-0.9.8k.tar.gz
tar xvzf openssl-0.9.8k.tar.gz
cd openssl-0.9.8k
./config --prefix=/usr/local --openssldir=/usr/local/ssl
make
sudo make install
./config shared --prefix=/usr/local --openssldir=/usr/local/ssl
make clean
make
sudo make install


PHP

Now that the extra libraries are available we can continue to build PHP. We choose to install it into /usr/local/php5. As before if you wish to install into a different location, change the prefix.

curl -O http://de3.php.net/distributions/php-5.2.9.tar.bz2
tar xjf php-5.2.9.tar.bz2
cd php-5.2.9/
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/php5 --with-apxs2=/usr/local/sbin/apache2/bin/apxs --with-config-file-scan-dir=/usr/local/php5/php.d --with-iconv --with-openssl=/usr/local --with-openssl-dir=/usr/local/ssl --with-zlib=/usr --with-gd --with-zlib-dir=/usr --with-xmlrpc --with-iconv-dir=/usr --enable-exif --enable-sqlite-utf8 --enable-ftp --enable-sockets --enable-dbase --enable-mbstring --with-bz2=/usr --enable-fastcgi --enable-cgi --enable-zip --with-curl --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql --with-pdo-mysql=/usr/local/mysql --with-libxml-dir=shared,/usr/local/php5 --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/php5 --with-png-dir=/usr/local/php5 --with-freetype-dir=/usr/local/php5
make
sudo make install

You should now have a ready development system.

Finalization

To make sure that the newly installed software is used instead of the default installed one make sure that /usr/local and the bin and php5 folders within are in the path before /usr/bin.
To start the Apache server use the following command:

sudo /usr/local/sbin/apache2/bin/apachectl start

Use stop and restart to stop or restart the server.

Credit

This article is inspired by the following three great guides:
Compiling Apache and PHP (and MySQL) on Mac OS X Leopard
Apache 2 + PHP 5 + MySQL 4 under OS X 10.3.9
Installing Apache, MySQL and PHP on Leopard