Comments on: Installing Apache

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:15:07 +0000

@Jim, I don’t agree. As I explained somewhere else on the site you create dependancies I try to avoid. This is just you, me and the source and no one else. Also macports does a lot more which we do not need.

By: Jim Rinkevich

Jim Rinkevich — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:19:00 +0000

The installation guide shold take advantage of the mac ports to install stuff like mysql5, apache2, php5, postfix, and dovecot (or courier-imap and courier-authlib (I think)). You’d still need the manual instruction for PostfixAdmin and the postfix and dovecot (or courier) setups.

By: jai

jai — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:46:06 +0000

lol – well i’m looking at this page because this was the one i was taken to after following your mysql installation guide – so i was wondering if there are some important elements missing from the Leopard installation or something. That said, i’ve got a tad stuck trying to get GD2 and freetype2 working with the default php install, so i’m going to go ahead and follow your apache and php installations anyway.

btw- just wanted to say, thanks for these docs – instructions are really good and easy to follow and so nice to have all the guides collected in one place instead of having to use google each time to find out how to do the next bit

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:35:51 +0000

There is, in the Introduction page there is a short explanation. Basically, because we can. But if you don’t want to why are you looking here, you don’t have to do it!

By: jai

jai — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:27:39 +0000

is there a document somewhere that goes through and describes exactly why it is necessary to reinstall your own Apache rather than using the 2.2.11 one that comes with Leopard?
i’m fairly sure the benefits are beyond my needs so i don’t need to bother, but it’d be nice to see for sure