{"id":1177,"date":"2011-02-03T18:17:34","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T22:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2011-04-20T16:20:23","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T20:20:23","slug":"a-web-developmen-environment-on-snow-leopard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/2011\/02\/a-web-developmen-environment-on-snow-leopard\/","title":{"rendered":"A Web Development Environment on Snow Leopard"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is an update to an earlier post I submitted about how to set up a web dev environment on Leopard.\u00a0 A few things have changed from Leopard to Snow Leopard (namely switching to 64 bit code) so it makes sense to refresh this guide.<\/a><\/p>\n

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If you’re like me and you’d tried to have your Leopard PHP-MYSQL build just work on Snow Leopard, I’m sure you met with the same rude awakening that I did.<\/a><\/p>\n

It didn’t work.<\/a><\/p>\n

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If you followed my guide for installing <\/a>LAMP on Leopard<\/a>, you should start by cleaning out MacPorts and starting fresh.<\/p>\n

To be certain, you should honestly clean out everything.\u00a0 But before you do, be sure to list out all the ports you currently have installed.\u00a0 Do that like this:<\/p>\n

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sudo port installed<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n
And copy the list of installed ports to a text file. For reference.<\/p>\n
Next let’s do some housecleaning (BE CAREFUL! DON’T UNINSTALL UNLESS YOU MEAN IT!):<\/p>\n
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sudo port clean --all vile\r\nsudo port -f uninstall installed<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Then you can go about re-installing your environment. The guide below is slightly modified to be able to work on Snow Leopard.\u00a0 Enjoy!<\/p>\n
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I’ve found a relatively easy way to maintain a flexible, updatable  development under MacOS 10.6 which goes so far as to install my own  components, but not to have to compile them (which I’ve done several  times and can attest, is a pain).<\/p>\n
This setup gives you a great web development environment under  Leopard (geared in my case towards Flash development compatible with the  WordPress platform), which does a better job of playing by the rules  than the default install of a lot of these elements.\u00a0 And with MacPorts,  the whole thing is modular and very easily maintained.<\/p>\n
And everything on the list is free and\/or open-source.<\/p>\n
* Note that you’ll need to have administrator privileges on your user account to do this.<\/p>\n
** Also note that this is geared towards creating a relatively  unfettered development environment.\u00a0 I don’t make any considerations  about server security or server optimization for large-scale web  applications.\u00a0 This is really geared towards creating a simple, local  dev environment.<\/p>\n
Includes:<\/strong><\/p>\n