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Installing Magento on Mac OS X Server
2011-01-05 09:01:20 admin
Here’s a basic outline of how to install Magento on Mac OS X Server 10.4.9 for development and testing
purposes. The OS X Server installation I used was fairly standard, running on a local machine used for
development testing.
I would think that the majority of these instructions should work with a standard install of OS X (not
server), but I have yet to try this.
The following instructions assume you have MySQL running on your development server, and that you
have created an empty database for the Magento install.
Install PHP5
The default install of OS X Server 10.4 comes with PHP 4 installed, you will need to upgrade this
to PHP 5. I used the package made available by Marc Liyanage on his site. Get it
here: http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/php/
1. Follow the instructions on this site to install. There are no specific instructions for OS X Server, but the
main thing to do before installing is to make sure you have disabled the PHP 4 module in Apache using
the Server Admin program. Open the program and head to the web service > settings > modules. Un
check ‘php4_module’, save, then stop and start the web service. You can then run the PHP 5 Install
package.
2. Open /Library/WebServer/Documents/info.php and uncomment line 5, then save the file. This will give
you a phpinfo file you can use to see what version of PHP you are running. Browse
to http://localhost/info.php and you should see that you havePHP Version 5.2.4 installed (or a later
version if the package has been updated).
3. Now you need to make a small change to the php.ini file in line with the comments
here: http://www.entropy.ch/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?p=9499#9499
What’s helpful at this point is to update your locate database so you can easily find files for editing. Simply
run the following command in a terminal window to do this, it may take a short time to complete. Just let it
run until you get the prompt back.
sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb
You should now be able to find your php.ini file by typing the following in the terminal window:
locate php.ini
You should get a list of files containing php.ini and their paths. I use BBedit for text editing, and use the
BBedit command line tool to open files using terminal.
I ran the following command:
bbedit /usr/local/php5/lib/php.ini
This opened the file in BBedit. You then need to change line 810 as stated in the above link. The only
alteration I made was to run a locate command to find the exact path of mysql.sock on my machine, like
so:
locate mysql.sock

2. In my case I changed line 810 to read the following, then saved the file:
mysql.default_socket = /private/var/mysql/mysql.sock
You then need to stop and start the web service in the Server Admin program to re-load the php.ini file
with its change.
Download M agento
Next, download the Magento zip and uncompress it. Copy the ‘magento’ folder to your web server
documents folder at: /Library/WebServer/Documents/
Be careful if you plan to create a folder in your web root and simply copy the files into it using the finder.
There is a file called .htaccess in the folder that is uncompressed from the Magento install zip that MUST
be in the folder in your web root. Files with a ‘.’ at the start are invisible in the Mac OS finder, so it is likely
you will miss this file if you copy the files out of the original folder. You can use the terminal to copy the file
to the correct location if you need too. Make sure you change the permissions on the files and folders
mentioned on the Magento install guide page.
Getting M od Rewrite Working
You now need to edit the httpd.conf file in order to get mod rewrite working correctly. This is the main area
I had difficulty with, as without making this change, when you first try to run Magento you will get a file not
found error when your web server looks for http://localhost/magento/install/. ‘install’ is not a physical
directory, and requires mod rewrite to be working so the URLworks.
Find your httpd.conf using the locate command, and open it for editing (Again I used bbedit)
locate httpd.conf
Find the file you need and open it, in my case:
bbedit /private/etc/httpd/httpd.conf
Find the block of code that reads:
<Directory "/">
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
Duplicate it by copy and pasting it underneath, and edit the Directory to match the path to your Magento
install. Also, change ‘AllowOverride None’ to ‘AllowOverride All’, like so:
<Directory "/Library/WebServer/Documents/magento">
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
You will again need to stop and start the web service using the Server Admin program so these changes
are loaded.
Running The Install Wizard
You should now be in good shape to run the Magento installation wizard. Enter the address to your
Magento install, in my case: http://localhost/magento/
You will be redirected to: http://localhost/magento/install/ and the wizard should load. If you get a
page/file not found error, double check your path in httpd.conf above, and make sure that the line reads:

3. AllowOverride All
Notes
1. When following the wizard setup. I found that in the section where you specify your MySQL database, I
had to use the address 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost in order to find my MySQL server.
2. I also opened the Server Admin program and went to the web service and sites tab, where i duplicate
the default site running on port 80. Double click the new site (the domain comes up as ‘_copy’, then click
on the ‘security’ tab. Tick ‘enable Secure Socket Layer (SSL)’. You should then be informed the port for
that site has been switched to 443. Save, and stop and start the web service. This allowed me to use
https for the secure connection instead of changing it to http.
3. When using the Entropy.ch PHP5 Package, you may also need to edit /usr/local/php5/lib/php.ini and set
the short_open_tag option to ‘On’. This appears to be off by default.
relative link:http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/1_-_installation_and_configuration/installing-
magento-on-mac-os-x-server-10-4-9
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