It’s a little tricky getting a nice clean install of PHP5 for OS X 10.5. The packages that I always used to depend on over at Entropy don’t seem to work anymore. At least not for Leopard. A great shame.
I’m now switching to lighttpd for my development server, so have come up with the following recipe to install PHP5 and the great Imagick extension for image manipulation.
Follow these instructions at your own risk! They worked fine on my setup but I can’t guarantee they will for you.
- Install Xcode.
- Install MacPorts.
Now update MacPorts:
sudo port selfupdateInstall lighttpd:
sudo port install lighttpdInstall the startup item and copy the default configuration file:
sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.lighttpd.plist sudo cp /opt/local/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf.default /opt/local/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.confNow we install PHP with the FastCGI, MySQL and Pear variants.
sudo port install php5 +fastcgi +mysql5 +pearIn order for this to work, I had to disable the port
perl5.8by using the following command:sudo port deactivate perl5.8 sudo port activate perl5Then run the command again and it should succeed:
sudo port install php5 +fastcgi +mysql5 +pearCopy over the default PHP configuration:
sudo cp /opt/local/etc/php.ini-dist /opt/local/etc/php.iniNow open up the PHP configuration file:
sudo mate /opt/local/etc/php.iniAdd the following line to the file:
cgi.fix_pathinfo=1Find
extension_dir = "./"and replace it with:extension_dir = "/opt/local/lib/php/extensions" extension=imagick.soEdit the lighttpd configuration file:
sudo mate /opt/local/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.confEnsure that the following is uncommented:
fastcgi.server = ( ".php" => ( "localhost" => ( "socket" => "/var/run/lighttpd/php-fastcgi.socket", "bin-path" => "/opt/local/bin/php-cgi" ) ) )And also make lighttpd run as the user
www:server.username = "www" server.groupname = "www"Add the following if you want to be able to use your
Sitesdirectory in your home directory. I also changed the default document root to the OS X default:server.modules += ("mod_userdir") userdir.path = "Sites" userdir.basepath = "/Users/" server.document-root = "/Library/WebServer/Documents"Ensure that
"mod_fastcgi",is uncommented.Now we need to setup a few directories, and make the user
wwwthe owner for them:sudo mkdir /var/run/lighttpd sudo mkdir /var/log/lighttpd sudo chown www:www /var/run/lighttpd sudo chown www:www /var/log/lighttpdNow install ImageMagick:
sudo port install imagemagickNow we need to download the Imagick PHP module. I was hoping this would be as easy as
sudo pecl install imagick, however I got an error for that, and so a manual build and install of the module is necessary:curl -O http://pecl.php.net/get/imagick-2.2.1.tgz tar xvfz imagick-2.2.1.tgz cd imagick-2.2.1/ phpize ./configure --with-imagick=/opt/local make sudo make install sudo cp /opt/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/imagick.so /opt/local/lib/php/extensions
And finally, you can then run LightTPD with the following. The -D flag tells lighttpd not to run in the background–you don’t need to use it:
lighttpd -f /opt/local/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf -D
You should then be able to visit a PHP file in your browser to test that it works. A simple test file would be:
<?php
$img = new Imagick('pic.jpg');
$img->rotateImage('#fff', 45);
header('Content-type: image/jpeg');
echo $img;
?>
This is just a simple Imagick rotate on an image.