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Mac OS X - Local Web Development Environment Setup

My name is Alex Podobas and I’m a member of the UCLA IT Security Office. My IT security work at UCLA involves an ample amount of code review and writing web applications and I use OS X as my primary, day-to-day operating system. Recently, I wiped my computer and decided to use Homebrew as my package and dependency manager to re-install and customize my LAMP-stack (I suppose minus the “L” in that acronym), local environment for web development. The steps below will take you from a fresh install of OS X to having a running web server on your local machine in about an hour.

Notes:

1. Be sure to replace “ampodobas” with your own OS X username. To find out that username, open Terminal (Applications/Utilities/Terminal) and type “whoami”

2. I make no guarantees, warranties, representations that executing the instructions below will work as stated. I merely am echoing what worked for me.

  1. open Terminal (Applications/Utilities/Terminal)
  2. install Xcode (https://developer.apple.com/xcode/)
  3. install Xcode’s Command Line tools for Xcode (Google search for this link)
    4. 4.
  4. install XQuartz from http://xquartz.macosforge.org/
    5.
  5. ruby -e “$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)”
    6. 6.
  6. brew doctor
    7. 7.
  7. brew tap homebrew/dupes
    8. 8.
  8. brew tap josegonzalez/homebrew-php
    9. 9.
  9. brew install php54 —with-pgsql
    10. 10.
  10. brew install php54-xdebug
    11. 11.
  11. brew install mcrypt php54-mcrypt
    12. 12.
  12. sudo apachectl restart
    13. 13.
  13. vi ~/.bash_profile      
    14. 14.
  14. export PATH=“$(brew —prefix josegonzalez/php/php54)/bin:$PATH”
    15. 15.
  15. sudo vi /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
    16. 16.
  16. Add after the commented LoadModule directive:
  17. ⁃ #LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so
  18. ⁃ LoadModule php5_module */usr/local/Cellar/php54/5.4.12/libexec/apache2/libphp5.so
  19. ⁃ (Note: ensure that the version you actually install from Brew matches the path)
  20. ⁃ (Note: uncomment the following: Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf)
    21. 17.
  21. sudo apachectl restart
    22. 18.
  22. brew install git
    23. 19.
  23. brew install curl-ca-bundle
    24. 20.
  24. brew install autoconf automake apple-gcc42 libksba libtool pkg-config libyaml
    25. 21.
  25. brew install node
    26. 22.
  26. sudo apachectl restart
    27. 23.
  27. vi ~/.bash_profile
  28. ⁃ export PATH=“/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH”
    29. 24.
  29. brew install mysql
    30. 25.
  30. mkdir -p ~/Library/LaunchAgents
    31. 26.
  31. ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/mysql/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents
    32. 27.
  32. launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist
    33. 28.
  33. mysql_secure_installation
    34. mysql_secure_installation
    29.
  34. mysql.server start
    35. 30.
  35. mkdir /Users/ampodobas/Sites
    36. 31.
  36. sudo vi /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
    37. 32.
  37. Ensure DocumentRoot is set to DocumentRoot “/Library/WebServer/Documents/”
    38. 33.
  38. Change “AllowOverride None” to “AllowOverride All”
    39. 34.
  39. Add the following:

* NameVirtualHost *:80

<Directory “/Users/name/Sites”>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

ServerName localhostDocumentRoot /Library/WebServer/Documents

35.

  1. sudo apachectl restart
    2. 36.
  2. visit http://localhost in the browser
    3. 37.
  3. brew install gtk+

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