Comments on: First Glance: Apple’s Snow Leopard

By: Lloyd Budd

Lloyd Budd — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 04:02:50 +0000

Richard, Apple should not install anything to /usr/local . Possibly, Brandon did his own installation / upgrade of PHP at some point?

“The /usr/local hierarchy is for use by the system administrator when installing software locally. It needs to be safe from being overwritten when the system software is updated. It may be used for programs and data that are shareable amongst a group of hosts, but not found in /usr.”
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRLOCALLOCALHIERARCHY
http://hivelogic.com/articles/using_usr_local

/etc/php.ini.default is the correct place for it, and the PHP lives at /usr/lib/php/ as one would expect.

WordPress already supported PHP 5.3 before 9/2/2009.

Lots of great information here otherwise.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:30:15 +0000

>> For me, there was a php.ini file located here:

>> /usr/local/php5/lib/php.ini-recommended

I just received a new iMac with Snow Leopard. I see references to php being in:
“usr/local”
Within my root level’s directory, “usr” there is *no* php5 (unlike my Powerbook with Tiger). [ even using TinkerTools to turn "hidden" files visible ]
I also read online that that is where mysql should be.
Why would I have no “local” directory? – and where else would php and/or mysql be?
Many thanks for any guidance you can provide. —richard

By: Jesse

Jesse — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:56:17 +0000

I upgraded to SnowLeopard and it killed my MySQL, PHPMYADMIN and APACHE. I think the PHPMYADMIN doesn’t work just because APACHE no longer functions. So, I installed MAMP. This gets it working, but I think it isn’t the same. I want my native Snow Leopard Apache and MySQL install to function on it. Realistically, the Apache seems to be my biggest problem. How do I reinstall this from scratch? From the install disc?

By: Brandon Savage

Brandon Savage — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:57:46 +0000

Tady, your wordpress installation problems probably stem from the fact that Wordpress doesn’t officially run on PHP 5.3 yet.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:53:12 +0000

@Dave

His may have been in /usr/local/php5/lib/php.ini-recommended, but mine was /etc/php.ini.default from a fresh install of Snow Leopard.

By: Tady Walsh

Tady Walsh — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:43:58 +0000

Hiya Brandon,

I posted this on the Apple and Wordpress Forums today:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/306878

But for lack of having a blog of my own, I thought you might like to re-post it. It answers all these points and more of the MySQL install.

Cheers,

By: Emehrkay

Emehrkay — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:19:24 +0000

This is the first site that I’ve come across that really talks about Snow Leopard and PHP 5.3.

The timezone error kinda difficult to fix. The doc page for timezones says to add it in this format in the ini “America/New_York” which didnt work for me in the ini, it did work when using thedate_default_timezone_set() function. What worked was to define it like such in the ini:

date.timezone = Etc/GMT-5

By: Brandon Savage

Brandon Savage — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:09:52 +0000

I haven’t, but to be fair I typically don’t install APC on my development machines.

Make sure you’ve upgraded your Xcode installation (it’s on the Snow Leopard disk) because that’s not automatically installed, even if you had it installed for Leopard.

By: quelhas

quelhas — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:50:44 +0000

Anyone tried to install APC (Alternative PHP Cache) extension? I’ve tried some of the most recent versions but i got some strange and different compile errors while performing “make”. Maybe there might be some ./configure flags missing. Anyone?

By: Brandon Savage

Brandon Savage — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:18:08 +0000

For me, there was a php.ini file located here:

/usr/local/php5/lib/php.ini-recommended

I copied it (rather than moving it) in case I ever wanted to replace it.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:10:54 +0000

Hi Brandon, sorry for the stupid question, but where is the distribution php.ini file located? i tried to copy the php.ini.default file in /etc to php.ini but this had the knock on effect of disabling php altogether..

thanks

By: Brandon Savage

Brandon Savage — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:06:51 +0000

Kyle, you’ll want to copy the distribution php.ini file to the /etc directory and then edit the line date.timezone to your appropriate timezone.

See the timezone database (http://us3.php.net/manual/en/timezones.php) for the correct way to specify your timezone.

By: Kyle Decot

Kyle Decot — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 07:30:17 +0000

Exactly how do you fix the timezone issue? I can’t seen to figure it out