[loren s]

I know this is a question that has been answered lots of times. But I can not find any concreate tutorials.

I have a site that is using PHP and a CMS . It takes alot of time to upload immages an index pages. I heard that panther has PHP and MYSQL and all of that stuff built in . But when I drop pages into my webshare it does not work... Is there a control panel or tutorial that will give me access to all of this so I can do test stuff on my happy mac ?

[redJag]

I don't think that MySQL comes pre-installed. Anyway, go to System Preferences->Sharing->Personal Web Sharing and turn it on. Now, put the files in /Library/WebServer/Documents and then type in your computers address to access them.

[loren s]

I did that and got what I expeccted, errors. I could have sweared that I saw Mysql installed on Panther .. Oh well any tutorilas on how I should go abouts doing this ? Or do I just install it from the site on the net ?

[Jaey]

You might want to head down to http://www.entropy.ch/software/MacOSx/mysql/

[insha]

MySQL doe not come with Panther; you will have to get it from the link which Jaey referred to you in the previous post.

By default, PHP is disabled in Panther, you will have to enable it by uncommenting (sp?) the appropriate lines in the httpd.conf file in the /etc/httpd/ (default for Apache on OS X) folder. A step-by-step guide can be found here.

Once both of these are up and running (and given that you have restarted Apache after updating it's configuration file). All you need to do is put the PHP files in the "sites" folder that is under your user name. Don't put any files in the /Library/WebServer/Documents --

Now you can view to your PHP site from your browser using the following url http://localhost/~username (where the "~username" is your user name)

[redJag]

Oops, forgot about the uncommenting Sorry. Also, serverlogistics.com has some good mac packages as well.

[larkost]

To clarify: MacOS X Server does come with MySQL installed, but client does not. It is rather simple to get MySQL up and running on client though.