[FX.php List] Advice on Leopard, Apache 2, PHP w/ GD, Entropy and MAMP

[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

I guess you could download and compile php with gdlib from source
under Leopard...

ggt

2008/9/5 Troy Meyers <tcmeyers at troymeyers.com>:
> We've just received a new duo-core Intel Mac Mini that came with Leopard and Apache 2.2 installed. The plan was to get this so that, without disturbing our existing Tiger Apache 1.3 / WPE machine, I could set up an SSL server and test it, so that I'd be able to swap it in when I was confident that all components, Apache SSL, PHP, and WPE were working as needed.
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> I had thought it would be easy because (supposedly) you just do a little Terminal work to turn on the SSL capability in Apache 2.2. This may be the case, but I've run into a roadblock even before getting that far.
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> On the existing PHP machine I've been using the Entropy installation, which I needed because we need the GD library.
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> On the new machine, I installed the FMS9A 9.0v3 "full" (since it's Leopard) with the "Multiple Machines" and "Worker" options. That appeared to go fine, though I never went as far as reconfiguring the deployment... not ready for that yet.
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> Then, I tried installing the Entropy PHP 5.2.4 package for Apache 2 (entropy-php-5.2.4-1-apache2.tar). It is listed for MacOS 10.4, but I thought since 10.5 wasn't mentioned anywhere it'd still be OK. This threw an error at the end of the installation. It killed Apache too.
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> I hit the old posts in forums, and it looks like this is a well known problem without a clear-cut solution, and that the Entropy guy (Marc Liyanage) isn't/doesn't have time to come out with a new version. It's been months. Lots of fixes have been posted, but it looks like none work well for the majority.
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> Some have suggested that abandoning Entropy PHP and moving to MAMP (http://www.mamp.info/en/mamp.html) as the solution. It sounds promising, but looking on that forum too shows that it hasn't been trouble-free. I'm not sure if I should take that plunge.
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> So, I have burning questions.
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> Is anyone using the WPE, Apache 2.2, and a PHP version with GD, (with or without SSL, I guess) on and Intel Mac Mini (or similar) under Leopard?
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> What other PHP options are there that include GD, that will work on this machine?
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> Will MAMP work with the WPE?
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> What order of install is best-- FMS, PHP, enable SSL?
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> I've wiped the new machine so that I can start over. If anyone can give me some advice I'd really appreciate it!
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> -Troy
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