Mamp

MAMP Setup on OSX

Setting up macOS with Apache, MySQL and PHP.

The guide uses the default Mac OSX Apache and PHP along with Homebrew for installing MySQL.

Apache

Open the Apache server configuration file httpd.conf for editing

/private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf

httpd.conf settings

Set the server name to localhost

ServerName localhost:80

Configure document root for sites folder (create ~/Sites if needed)

DocumentRoot "/Users/<user-name>/Sites"
<Directory "/Users/<user-name>/Sites">

Set log file location and create folder if needed

ErrorLog "/private/var/log/apache2/error_log"
CustomLog "/private/var/log/apache2/access_log" common

Enable the PHP module (add or uncomment)

LoadModule php7_module libexec/apache2/libphp7.so

Expand directory index file extensions (not required when other/php7.conf is used)

DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php

Enable the virtual hosts configuration file (add or uncomment)

Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

Virtual hosts

Edit Apache vhosts configuration file

/private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

Remove sample configs and add new vhost

<VirtualHost *:80>
	DocumentRoot "/Users/<user-name>/Sites/<site-name>"
	ServerName <server-name>
</VirtualHost>

Start Apache

Start (or restart) Apache to activate new config

sudo apachectl start

PHP

Create a php.ini file

sudo cp /private/etc/php.ini.default /private/etc/php.ini

(For additional error reporting when developing, download the related distribution from php.net/releases and use php.ini-development contents for php.ini config)

Add your timezone to date.timezone to stop PHP date warning (eg. America/Los_Angeles)

date.timezone = "<timezone>"

Configure MySQL socket setting, find and set the following

pdo_mysql.default_socket = /tmp/mysql.sock
mysqli.default_socket = /tmp/mysql.sock

Hosts File

Open the etc hosts file

/private/etc/hosts

Add entries for each virtual host

127.0.0.1 <domain-name>

MySQL

Install MySQL with Homebrew (Latest: msyql or Version: msyql@5.7)

brew install mysql@5.7

And MySQL bin folder to path (reload shell to activate)

export PATH=/usr/local/opt/mysql@5.7/bin:$PATH

Start MySQL server

mysql.server start

Secure MySQL installation

mysql_secure_installation

Step through MySQL secure installation procedure

• Set a root password

• Remove anonymous user

• Disallow root login remotely

• Remove test databases

• Reload privileges

General Information

Useful Files and Directories

Default user sites location

~/Sites

Base Apache files location

/Library/WebServer

Default Apache page (contains default index page)

/Library/WebServer/Documents

Location of MySQL database files

/usr/local/var/mysql