I mainly do web development on my 15 in Macbook Pro. Mac runs on base Unix foundation so mainly you could install almost all Linux/Unix software on Mac very easily.
XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MariaDB, PHP, and Perl. Just download and start the installer. XAMPP for Windows 7.3.30, 7.4.23 & 8.0.10.
Mac OS X comes by default with ApacheWeb Server and PHP. In this tutorial we will go over steps on how to enable those on Mac.
- The Apache HTTP web Server Project is a push to create and keep up an open-source HTTP server for current working frameworks including UNIX and Windows. The objective of this anticipate is to give a safe, effective and extensible server that gives HTTP administrations in a state of harmony with the present HTTP benchmarks.
- 2) Install apache 2.0 The homebrew package installer can be used to install Apache 2.0 on MacOS. The installer installs the Apache HTTP server on the location /usr/local/Cellar/httpd. 3) Start apache Apache provides a service named as apachectl which needs to be started in order to start Apache. The command needs super user privileges to be executed hence we have to use sudo to get the.
- Apache Server 2.4.49. Number One HTTP Server. Apache or, more precisely, the Apache httpd server, is one of the most trusted web server available now days. Mostly used on Linux, Unix and BSD systems, it can be installed on Windows without difficulties. The purpose of a web server is to build and serve, not only every page of a.
Let’s get started:
Enable Apache Web Server
Step-1
Open terminal App and run below command:
Step-2
Open browser and check with URL: http://localhost
Enable PHP Module and verify Perl module
Step-1
Open Terminal App. Mac OS X comes by default with Perl library. Just type below commands to check Perl and PHP Setup.
2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 | /usr/bin/perl bash-3.2# pwd total120 -rw-r--r--1root wheel13077Sep92014magic drwxr-xr-x14root wheel476Sep92014extra -rw-r--r--1root wheel20786Sep92014httpd.conf -rw-r--r--1root wheel20786Jun913:55httpd.conf.bak bash-3.2# vi httpd.conf |
Step-2
Open file httpd.conf file. You may use any Text Editor also.
Uncomment the following line (remove #): LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so
Step-3
Restart Apache Web Server:
Step-4
- Find
DocumentRootfromhttpd.conffile. In my case it’s/Users/crunchify/Documents/Blogs/MAMPas I’m using MAMP on my Mac. - You may have diff folder something like
/Library/WebServer/Documents/. - Create below file
crunchify-php-on-mac.phpunder your DocumentRoot folder. - If you don’t see folder
Web Serverthen just create it 🙂
2 4 6 8 | <head> </head> <?phpecho'<p>Hello World - PHP Testcase on Mac OS X by Crunchify.com...</p><br>Have a fun.. Enjoy..';?> </html> |
Step-5
Now visit this URL: http://localhost/crunchify-php-on-mac.php and you should see php file loaded successfully on browser.
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How to Kill Apache httpd process on Mac?
Just incase if you need to kill apache httpd process on Mac then you could use below commands.
2 | sudo launchctl unload/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.httpd.plist |
Enjoy and Happy coding…
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