Hey Gary! I may have already told you this, but I can't remember. At UNC Charlotte, we use OSX Tiger and Leopard server for our prod and test Drupal installs. Like someone already mentioned, Apple limits PHP and leaves components out that you may need. For prod on Tiger Server, I have used Apple's Apache 1.3.x, MySQL 4.1, but I roll my own php4 compiles to include GD, imap-ssl, etc. Our test Tiger server is running my own php5 and apache 2.2 compiles with the MySQL5 OSX binary install. Primarily because I use I am setting up some new Leopard servers and I am going to continue using Apple's Apache 2.2 and MySQL 5 compiles. I will roll my own php5. Apple updates frequently overwrites your php compiled Apache module. Just keep a copy and watch what Apple is updating so you can replace it. Bad Apple! Now that OSX Leopard Server can be virualized, it is going to get really interesting.. gives us more options. Let me know any questions for things I may have missed here. Thanks! Mark On Apr 2, 2008, at 11:36 AM, Gary Broyhill wrote:
Hi,
I fairly new to this group, and have thoroughly enjoyed reading the posts so far.
To learn Drupal, I have succesfully set up Drupal 5.7 on a Mac OSX Leopard server, which came preconfigured with Apache/PHP. I had the server on hand so it seemed a cheap way to get started :). Has anyone else tried using Drupal on OSX? Would be interested in comparing notes. I'm not sure if OSX would be a good production server for the long haul, and I wonder if should just ditch it and go to a standard LAMP set up.
Any input on this would be appreciated! Thanks
Gary Broyhill Webmaster Lenoir-Rhyne College, Hickory, NC www.lrc.edu