Comments on: Setting up PHP on Mac OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

By: Yenrak

Yenrak — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:27:09 +0000

So, why did you not put any directories in this article?

It appears Apple has 3 places where its Apache will look for an index.

~/Sites
/Library/WebServer/Documents

and a third I can't determine.

Each one is used based on whether or not you have internet connectivity.

I feel I should mention to anyone who comes here looking to configure PHP on Snow Leopards Apache that the file you need to modify to enable PHP is called the httpd.conf file. This is located in the following directory

/etc/apache2/httpd.conf

Secondly, it should be mentioned that if anyone plans on doing anything with times then the timezone needs to be set in the /etc/php.ini file

open /etc/php.ini

search for 'date.timezone'. You should see this section of code

[Date]
; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions
; http://php.net/date.timezone
; date.timezone =

delete the ';' from the beginning of the line 'date.timezone' and then choose your timezone from one of the following listed here: http://php.net/manual/en/timez...

Since, I'm in the central timezone, I would choose America/Chicago. So my date section would be:

[Date]
; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions
; http://php.net/date.timezone
; date.timezone = "America/Chicago"

Then restart Apache with sudo apachectl restart

By: Yenrak

Yenrak — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:27:00 +0000

So, why did you not put any directories in this article?

It appears Apple has 3 places where its Apache will look for an index.

~/Sites
/Library/WebServer/Documents

and a third I can’t determine.

Each one is used based on whether or not you have internet connectivity.

I feel I should mention to anyone who comes here looking to configure PHP on Snow Leopards Apache that the file you need to modify to enable PHP is called the httpd.conf file. This is located in the following directory

/etc/apache2/httpd.conf

Secondly, it should be mentioned that if anyone plans on doing anything with times then the timezone needs to be set in the /etc/php.ini file

open /etc/php.ini

search for ‘date.timezone’. You should see this section of code

[Date]
; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions
; http://php.net/date.timezone
; date.timezone =

delete the ‘;’ from the beginning of the line ‘date.timezone’ and then choose your timezone from one of the following listed here: http://php.net/manual/en/timezones.php

Since, I’m in the central timezone, I would choose America/Chicago. So my date section would be:

[Date]
; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions
; http://php.net/date.timezone
; date.timezone = “America/Chicago”

Then restart Apache with sudo apachectl restart

By: enzodad

enzodad — Sat, 15 May 2010 22:50:19 +0000

Um nothing you said did anything, i mean when i nav to that page all i get is the i did all the commands you said and nothing,,,,,,why cant i get it to display PHP information.. PHP is saposed to be really easy to get up and running yet i cant get it to work s i can learn it,

By: JayBee

JayBee — Mon, 03 May 2010 19:40:58 +0000

Hi,
thanks for this excellent step by step guide.
I would add that the new location of the apache config file is under /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
(I was looking for the old /etc/httpd.conf at first)