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HOWTO: Install Habari on Mac OS X Leopard, From Scratch

Installing Habari isn't really that complicated, however getting OS X up and running ready for the installation requires a bit of work.Mac OS X 10.5 (aka Leopard) conveniently comes with Apache 2 and PHP 5, so most of the work in setting up a MAMP server has already been done for you. Sure there are other ways to get a MAMP setup: you can build Apache, MySQL and PHP from sources, you can use MacPorts or you can use pre-built packages like MAMP or XAMPP.I prefer to use as much of what is supplied with the OS as possible as there's no point having duplicate applications on a system. It also makes keeping them up-to-date much easier - it becomes Apple's job, not mine.Anyway, in order to get all the way through this article there are a couple of requirements:1. You have XCode installed2. You're fairly comfortable in using the command line.This last requirement isn't strictly true as I will provide all the commands you need to run anyway.The rest of this post assumes you've not configured PHP, Apache or MySQL on OS X at all yet. If you have, don't worry, I'm sure you'll be able to easily pick things up.NOTE: There is one caveat with this approach: Apple's updates may require you to redo any one of the steps below as it may replace files you've modified or provide newer incompatible versions of software.Update: You can find details on installing gd on OS X as a universal binary for 32-bit and 64-bit here.  Continue reading ►

MySQL Preferences Pane on OS X Leopard

The MySQL Preferences pane that comes with the MySQL download from the MySQL site is broken on Leopard, and has been for quite some time.It installs and correctly reflects the current status of any running MySQL processes, but the "Start MySQL Server" / "Stop MySQL Server" button doesn't do anything.Well, today I finally got it working.  Continue reading ►
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