Setting Mac Mountain Lion Server PHP and Apache

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1. Configure Apache

Use vi to configure the httpd.conf file.

sudo vi /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

Enable PHP and virtual hosts by uncommenting these lines:

LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so
Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-ssl.conf

Give your user permissions.

sudo vi /etc/apache2/users/[username].conf

<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks Indexes MultiViews
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

2. Install & Configure Git

Download the latest verion of Git for Mac here.

reboot
git config --global user.name 'username'
git config --global user.email 'email'

Initialize the Git directory and pull the latest code.

cd /path/to/website
git init
git remote add origin https://github.com/path/to/repo.git
git pull origin master

Use the OSX Keychain to save the password.

curl -s -O http://github-media-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/osx/git-credential-osxkeychain
chmod u+x git-credential-osxkeychain
which git
sudo mv git-credential-osxkeychain /usr/local/git/bin/
git config --global credential.helper osxkeychain

3. Configure Virtual Hosts

sudo vi /etc/hosts

Add a virtual hostname for each website.

127.0.0.1 [example].localhost

Configure directories and logs for apache.

sudo vi /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

Configure HTTP virtual hosts.

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "/path/to/web/folder"
    ServerName [example].localhost
</VirtualHost>

4. Setup Self-Signed SSL Certificate

cd /etc/apache2
sudo ssh-keygen -f server.key
sudo openssl req -new -key server.key -out request.csr
sudo openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in request.csr -signkey server.key -out server.crt
sudo openssl rsa -in server.key -out server.nopass.key
sudo vi /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-ssl.conf

Configure HTTPS virtual hosts.

DocumentRoot "/path/to/web/folder"
ServerName [example].localhost
SSLCertificateFile "/etc/apache2/server.crt"
SSLCertificateKeyFile "/etc/apache2/server.nopass.key"

5. Install & Configure MySQL

• Download the Mac OS X package from the MySQL download page
• Make sure it's the 64-bit DMG archive version
• Install MySQL, the pref pane and the startup scripts.

Create config, set timezone to UTC and set storage to ramdisk.

sudo cp /usr/local/mysql/support-files/my-small.cnf /etc/my.cnf
sudo vi /etc/my.cnf

[mysqld]
...
default_time_zone = '+00:00'
datadir = /Volumes/ramdisk/data
innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit = 2
innodb_data_home_dir = /Volumes/ramdisk/data

Add the mysql path to your profile.

sudo vi ~/.bash_profile

Add this line to the file:

export PATH="/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH"

Reload the profile.

su - [username]

Run the ramdisk script found here.

6. Configure php.ini

Enable the php.ini file and open it for editing.

sudo cp /etc/php.ini.default /etc/php.ini
sudo vi /etc/php.ini

Change the timezone and uni socket path for MySql to ramdisk:

date.timezone = UTC
...
pdo_mysql.default_socket=/tmp/mysql_ram.sock
...
detect_unicode = Off (at end, doesn't yet exist)

7. Start Services

sudo apachectl restart
cd /usr/local/mysql
./bin/mysqld_safe

8. Dev Extras

Remove sudo password.

sudo visudo

[username] ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

Install composer.

curl -s http://getcomposer.org/installer | php
php composer.phar install

Set permissions on cache and logs.

sudo rm -rf app/cache/*
sudo rm -rf app/logs/*
sudo chmod +a "www allow delete,write,append,file_inherit,directory_inherit" app/cache app/logs
sudo chmod +a "`whoami` allow delete,write,append,file_inherit,directory_inherit" app/cache app/logs

Install Java by initiating the installer.

java -version