PHP help with Mac OS X Snow Leopard

**Bhartiya-Technician** · 27-04-2010

Hi all,

I use a Macbook 4GB RAM 2.26 GHz Intel processor and I am trying to viewing the php files on my Mac. So I save the files with the extension. Php but when I go to open the file using Safari browser, it only shows the HTML tags and ignores the php script (the <? Php / php code /?. "So I found this great thing that MAMP creates a local server or something and before I used to use XAMPP on a Windows machine. Is anyone familiar with MAMP on a Mac or in general how to turn change the Apache server in Mac or something so that I can see my PHP files, but for my class?

I need PHP help with Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

**deveritt** · 27-04-2010

MAMP was created primarily as a PHP development environment for Macintosh computer and should therefore not be used as Live Webserver for the Internet. In this case, we recommend that you use Mac OS X server with the provided Apache or a Linux server.
But I want to know Why do you think that you should be "changing the Mac Apache server" for viewing these files?

You are not really using the Apache server portion of the operating system.

**Bhartiya-Technician** · 27-04-2010

Hi,

Thanks for replying. I want to view php files because it is a part of the computer science course which I have taken in school. If anyone could possibly provide an answer to this question as to how to view php scripts that is also embedded within html codes. I am using Windows machine with XAMP, but that was with a database course with phpMyadmin. If you could help me, to solve this problem then that would be readily appreciated.

**Techguru01** · 27-04-2010

For installing PHP on Snow Leopard you have to follow these simple steps.

Start Apache
sudo apachectl start

Check it's working: http://localhost/

In /etc/apache2/httpd.conf, uncomment this line:

Code:

LoadModule php5_module        libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

Restart Apache

sudo apachectl restart

Fix a warning appearing in phpinfo()
Create /etc/php.ini and make it writable

Code:

cd /etc
sudo cp php.ini.default php.ini
sudo chmod 666 php.ini

In php.ini, find this line:

Code:

;date.timezone =

Uncomment it and insert your time zone

Code:

date.timezone =America/Vancouver

Restart Apache

Code:

sudo apachectl restart

**Bhartiya-Technician** · 27-04-2010

I have enabled the php in the httpd.conf, copied php.ini.default to php.ini, and it working good with
<?php phpinfo(); ?>

One more thing, when I tried to connect to the running MySQL 5.1.38 database through php, But I am getting the error display that is "unable to connect", can anybody help to get rid of this error problem.