Posts Tagged ‘OS X’

Installing PHP on OS X

Posted in Development, PHP, Tutorials on January 1st, 2011 by Michael – Be the first to comment

As many of you may have noticed, one of the purposes of this blog is to act as my own personal notebook on how to configure things, but I’m glad to see it has provided benefit to others as well. That being said, it has been far too long since I’ve posted any information on this blog. Setting up my new laptop really through my routine out of whack. So as part of my New Year’s resolution, I resolve to do better, and post articles on a more frequent basis.

Speaking of my new laptop, I am now able to run OS X 10.6 or better, so all of my posts from now on will be discussing the newer OS.

But this post is about how to get PHP up and running on OS X, so let’s dig in.

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Updating Drupal Multi-Site on OS X

Posted in Development, Drupal, Tutorials on March 1st, 2010 by Michael – 3 Comments

We’re continuing on with the tutorials for the Drupal Multi-Site configuration that I set up on my Mac. All the domain and directory structure is based on that tutorial, so if you’ve done something slightly different, you’ll need to adjust as appropriate.

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Automating Drupal cron with OS X’s launchd

Posted in Development, Drupal, Tutorials on October 25th, 2009 by Michael – 3 Comments

Found this great post on Configuring cron on Mac OS X Server 10.5.x in the Drupal documentation. I’d been wanting to do that with my original post on Building a Drupal Multi-Site development environment, but I hadn’t had time to figure it out.

The title of the page at Drupal says “Mac OS X Server“, but there’s nothing that says you can’t use this technique on OS X Client, and I believe it will work on everything 10.4.x and up.

So I’m going to show you how to tie it into the Multi-Site setup I created on my local machine for the previous blog post.   read more »

Building a Drupal development environment for Mac

Posted in Development, Drupal, Tutorials on September 1st, 2009 by Michael – 27 Comments

I’ve been working on understanding the Drupal CMS for the past couple of weeks, and it can be a little bit confusing.  As usual with an open source project most of the documentation focuses on Unix/Linux or Windows.  There is some good information for Mac users, but for me, it seemed a little disjointed and was hard to bring together for a coherent setup.  This is my attempt to explain a complete setup, from start to finish, for doing web development on my local machine running OS X 10.4.  I’m completely new to Drupal, so if I could have done something better here, please let me know.

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