(Installation) Installing Drupal on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

Installation : Installing Drupal on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

Step 1: Enable PHP

Uncomment line 114 in /etc/apache2/httpd.conf to enable Leopard's built-in PHP:

LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

Start Apache 2 by using the Sharing panel in Preferences or at the command line with the following:

sudo apachectl start

(If Apache was already running, use restart instead of start.)

Place a test document into the default htdocs root to see if php is running. I created /Library/WebServer/Documents/phpinfo.php with the following content:

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

Now going to http://localhost/phpinfo.php shows me the info page for PHP 5.2.4. Yay!

Step 2: Friendly Virtual Hosts in Apache

I don't like keeping my websites in /Library/WebServer/Documents. It's a cumbersome place; I'd much rather keep them in /Users/john/Sites. That's right in my home directory and when I copy or sync my home directory I get the sites I'm working on, too. But using Leopard's built-in URL support for my home directory is verbose, too:

http://localhost/~john/sitename

I'd much rather use a nice short URL like http://dev/sitename. So first I assigned the name dev to my computer by adding a line to /etc/hosts:

##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1 dev
127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
...

Since Leopard caches DNS queries, we force it to reread /etc/hosts by using dscacheutil which replaces the lookupd utility that was in OS X 10.4.

dscacheutil -flushcache

I changed /etc/apache2/users/john.conf from

<Directory "/Users/john/Sites/">
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

to

<Directory "/Users/john/Sites/">
Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
# Allow .htaccess files to override httpd.conf.
AllowOverride All
# No access allowed.
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
# Except from this machine.
Allow from 127.0.0.1
</Directory>
# Enable virtual hosts.
NameVirtualHost *:80
# Point virtual host to our directory.
<Virtualhost *:80>
DocumentRoot /Users/john/Sites
Servername dev
</Virtualhost>

You can test that everything works and you didn't make any typos by using

sudo apachectl configtest

which should tell you that the syntax of your Apache configuration files is OK (it will point you to the line containing the error otherwise). If all is OK, restart Apache to effect the changes:

sudo apachectl restart

Now you should be able to go to http://dev/ in your browser, and the file at /Users/john/Sites/index.html should be displayed.

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Courtesy : Sysarchitects.com