A tutorial on running a local Apache, MySQL, multiple PHP versions server on macOS Mojave using HomeBrew, updated for 2019. Bonus points: you can change the PHP version using the site’s .htaccess like you would on most live hosts.
Tag Archives: mac os x
Custom PHP versions in MAMP PRO (macOS)
Compile your own PHP version from source and install it on MAMP PRO on macOS. It’s possible — despite what MAMP’s developers want you to believe.
Set up NginX and PHP for development on Mac OS X
If you want to start developing PHP applications, or merely work on your PHP-based site off-line, on Mac OS X you can easily do so. In this how-to we’ll see how you can set up NginX, a high performance web server, with the PHP version shipped with Mac OS X itself to create a local web server. In […]
Apache, MySQL, PHP server on Mac OS X with multiple, simultaneous PHP versions
My last week’s blog post on running Apache, MySQL, PHP server on Windows with multiple, simultaneous PHP versions seems to have been a smash hit. This week we’ll be doing the same thing on Mac OS X. For those of you who didn’t click the link, I decided it would be a cool, geeky project to implement an […]
Tools of the trade – Mac OS X edition
I’ve written in the past about the various tool I had been using to produce the web software I publish. I have recently converted to Mac OS X. I had promised you that I’d evaluate my web development experience on that platform and come back with a blog post about it. Here you go! This […]