Setting up a web server with Apache 2.2.x and PHP 5.2.x with extensions, PEAR, MySQL 5.x and pdo_mysql on FreeBSD 7 step by step tutorial
Written on September 13, 2009 at 9:58 pm, by Lupo
This quick tutorial will show you how to set up a FreeBSD machine (based on minimal install) to run as a web server using Apache 2.2.x, PHP 5 and MySQL 5. This tutorial is based on FreeBSD 7.2 (the current stable release at the time of this writing).
This tutorial builds on the minimal installation described here and assumes you have also downloaded the ports collection. If you haven’t done so please read the following article first: Managing ports in FreeBSD.
Compiling Apache and PHP from source with IMAP, XMLRPC, GD, PEAR, cURL and MySQL support on Mac OSX Leopard
Written on June 1, 2009 at 4:32 pm, by Lupo
The reason I decided to write this tutorial is that it seemed pretty clear to me that I would find myself going through this same process again, and probably many times (every few months) and it has proved to be very useful and time saving. Leopard comes with the apache web server pre-installed, but in this case, as a web developer I need to have control over which PHP etensions are installed, so I need to compile the web server and PHP with the relevant options. Read more
