This is a tutorial on how to setup Apache 2.2, PHP 5.3, and MySQL 5.5 on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Tomorrow, I’ll be starting my first day at BetterWorks and figured this tutorial would be a good reference for when I have to set up my development environment.

While I’m a big fan of nginx (pronounced: “engine x”) this tutorial uses Apache 2.2, which comes preinstalled on Snow Leopard. [...]

Since I’m on winter break and have some spare time, I thought it would be helpful if I posted a little tutorial on how to setup Apache 2.2.6, PHP 5.2.4, and MySQL 5.0.45 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).

I recently purchased a very sleek MacBook from Apple.com, thinking to myself, why not end the year in style? Anyway, after I got all my old applications installed and some of my files moved over from my PowerMac G5 I proceeded to enable Apache2 and PHP5. Usually, I use lighttpd instead of Apache and compile everything from source but this setup was just so simple I decided not to bother with anything painstakingly long, which building from source can very well be. [...]