Comments on: ISP-In-A-Box: The $500 Mac mini (Part IV, PHP)

By: Dayo Akanji

Dayo Akanji — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 19:40:10 +0000

Hello, I have been following your instructions and thanks a mil for them. I am about to download mysql and php and wanted to ask…you wrote that we should avoid version 5 of both but a few months later down the road, is this still the case?

Just that when I went to the mysql site for instance, they recommend v5.

Thanks for the great series!

[WM: All of these tutorials are keyed to version 4 so, if you load a different version, a number of things may be different and some things may not work at all. For our purposes, the recommended versions do everything you’d ever need or want to do with your Mac mini.]

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:50:47 +0000

Could I upgrade to PHP 5 without any issues with WordPress?

[WM: Lots of issues. I wouldn’t do it.]

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:49:51 +0000

Is there any updated version of Entropy PHP I can upgrade easily to? I just connected my computer to my school’s network (Georgia Tech) and it scans the computer for vulnerabilities before letting me connect to the internet, and it cited a PHP 4.3 flaw. I was able to get online by turning the server off, letting it scan, then turning it back on. However, I would like to fix this vulnerability… Would it be as simple as installing the *.dmg PHP installer? or would I have to uninstall my current PHP.

Thanks!

By: Tom Brooke

Tom Brooke — Tue, 10 May 2005 01:17:05 +0000

It’s Tom again, I installed Webmin but because the Personal Web Sharing start up it won’t let me in to use it. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated…

[WM: Tom, WebMin has its own web server on port 10000. So, if it won’t let you in at one of the three addresses mentioned in the WebMin article, you’ve got other problems on your machine other than Personal Web Sharing.]

By: Tom Brooke

Tom Brooke — Sun, 08 May 2005 12:11:55 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for instructions on getting Apache, MySQL and PHP installed. I just got stuck though…

I tried to re-start Personal Web Sharing after deleting the two #’s in Terminal but it wont start. No error message or anything just sits there ‘starting up…’.

I tried quitting SysPref but it cancels the operation. I even tried putting the #’s back in but it won’t start again.

Any ideas? Please??

Tom

[WM: Tom, System Preferences doesn’t return errors so you need another way to see them. The easiest way is to install WebMin and then choose Servers->Apache and start and stop Apache from there. It will tell you what came unglued with a line number. Ctrl-C in Pico will tell you what line number you’re on in the config file. Good luck!]

By: Charley

Charley — Sun, 27 Feb 2005 21:47:55 +0000

Newbie hiccup: I went to my sharing file and it says "View this computer?��?�?Ǭ�?��Ǩ?�?ɂİ?Ǭ�?��Ǩ?�?ɂ��?Ǭ�s website at http://localhost/." This can’t be what I’m looking for, can it? (For phpMyAdmin rewrite.) Thanks for this series, it is wonderful.

[WM: Sounds like you’re not connected to a network. Click on the Network icon in System Preferences and then choose Show: Network Status and be sure you’re connected to a network.]

By: Colin

Colin — Sat, 05 Feb 2005 10:41:30 +0000

Hi, I think your articles on the mac-mini are fantastic, however can I point out one small thing: PHP is already installed on OS X all you need to do is start apache, and open a few options in the httpd.conf. You do not need to re-install it at all as its already there.. this is the same with ruby – another nice language. Anyway, keep up the good work!
[WM: Colin and I spoke off-line about this so I’ll share our thoughts. There is an earlier version of PHP in the Panther distribution; however, you would have to compile it. I preferred a package build for simplicity sake, but either way obviously works.

By: llewdis

llewdis — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 19:39:08 +0000

I had a couple of quirks with this install:
I neede to enable php in the /etc/httpd.conf file by changing the following line and remove the comment character (didn’t see this in the first installment)

LoadModule php4_module libexec/httpd/libphp4.so
AddModule mod_php4.c

Then later on when we changed the permissions for php, localhost no longer worked (resolves to 127.0.0.1) but my internal ethernet address did work. So instead of http://localhost/php/ I had to use http://192.168.1.111/php/

That solved the problems, and I am now enjoying a much more intuitive interface to MySQL!

Thanks!

[WM: No, thank you for catching it! Version 1.0 articles have some similarities to Version 1.0 software. I’ve amended the main article to show what needs to be done. I just forgot I’d already done this on my machine.]