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The foibles setting up a development environment on Mac OS 10.5

Setting up PHP, Apache and MySQL

Mac OS 10.5 is a great place for web developing, as I am discovering. When I got my new MacBook Pro, I found that it had Apache already installed, including several other development tools that are useful to me, such as perl, PHP and subversion. It did not, however, have MySQL.

Through many web searches, and much trial and error, I finally got my system up and running and working how it’s suppose to. Mostly. Read more »