Drupal on OSX, anyone?
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
Hello, Gary, This might be slightly OT for the dev list, and a better fit for the support list -- Jon VanDyk has a great writeup on this here: http://www.sysarchitects.com/node/58 He also has a bunch of great mac-related content in general here: http://www.sysarchitects.com/taxonomy/term/12 IMO, you'd be better off with a LAMP stack. Cheers, Bill 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 <http://www.lrc.edu/>
-- Bill Fitzgerald http://www.funnymonkey.com Tools for Teachers 503.897.7160
I'd probably agree that unless you're already hosting on OSX, there's a lot more infrastructure out there to support pure LAMP stack setups. For development work, though, I swear by my MacBook running apache and a hand-compiled copy of PHP with GD, mamcached, etc. support. --Jeff On Apr 2, 2008, at 10:01 AM, Bill Fitzgerald wrote:
Hello, Gary,
This might be slightly OT for the dev list, and a better fit for the support list -- Jon VanDyk has a great writeup on this here: http://www.sysarchitects.com/node/58 He also has a bunch of great mac-related content in general here: http://www.sysarchitects.com/taxonomy/term/12 IMO, you'd be better off with a LAMP stack.
Cheers, Bill
Hi Gary, Yes! It works quite well. The PHP install in 10.5 lacks GD library (no comment on where Apple's brain is)... but it can either be compiled or using binaries from MAMP or entropy.ch. And I've run several OS X servers in production for many years. It worked out well especially in some small higher ed shops where IT staff didn't want to really learn UNIX/Linux but the point-click day-to-day stuff on OS X they could (and did) handle. Addi even has a handy dandy videocast how-to http://www.lullabot.com/videocast/install_local_web_server_mac_osx Josh --------------------------- Joshua Brauer Brauer Ranch Ltd. Co. http://BrauerRanch.com Making the world better through Drupal. On Apr 2, 2008, at 9:36 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
You might want to look at John Van Dyk's post about this at: http://www.sysarchitects.com/node/30 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Broyhill" <broyhill@lrc.edu> To: <development@drupal.org> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 5:36 PM Subject: [development] Drupal on OSX, anyone?
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
We run our Drupal sites on OSX servers without issue. It was also chosen because that was what we happened to have in our department initially. We haven't had any issues specific to Drupal (nor should there be!) ~!Bryan On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 12:04 PM, FGM <fgm@osinet.fr> wrote:
You might want to look at John Van Dyk's post about this at:
http://www.sysarchitects.com/node/30
----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Broyhill" <broyhill@lrc.edu> To: <development@drupal.org> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 5:36 PM Subject: [development] Drupal on OSX, anyone?
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
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
oh.. sorry for forgetting.. We are currently using MAMP for local dev. 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
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