GD should only be required for the silos... It's listed as a requirement presumably because they ship with core and there's no mechanism for requiring things in a more granular way at this point.
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Colin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Right, I've had a quick look and without getting into compiling PDO > drivers etc, you should find you can get Habari working using sqllite > as follows: > > 1. Enable PHP support by uncommenting the following line in > /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf: > > LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so > > 2. Restart Apache (System Preferences > Sharing and unselect and > select Web Sharing). > > 3. Install Habari as per the Habari instructions for sqllite. > > By default Apache on OSX is configured to use > /Library/WebServer/Documents for the document root of the server and > the Sites directory for users, so you'll need to extract the Habari > source to one of these locations. > > Each are accessible via http://localhost/ and > http://localhost/~username/ <http://localhost/%7Eusername/> respectively. > > This should hopefully get you heading in the right direction of a > basic functional install on your local system. > > Things get more complicated when trying to use another DB type as PHP > on OSX only comes with the PDO driver for sqllite, so you need to > compile the PDO driver for the other DB types (It'll take a bit longer > to document this procedure). > > The Habari requirements also detail GD (which isn't enabled on OSX > either), but my installation seems to be working fine without GD > support. Maybe someone else could provide more insight into why GD is > required. > > HTH > Colin > > > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Colin <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm using Apache/PHP as shipped with leopard for my local Habari install. > > > > I'm not sure what hoops I needed to jump through to get it all > > working, but I'll have a look in a mo and let you know. > > > > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 6:44 PM, nathan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Could anyone point me in the right direction so I can install habari > >> on my local machine? > >> > >> mac 10.5.5 > >> > >> I would like to be able to test habari in an offline environment. > >> > >> >> > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Colin Seymour > > Blog: http://www.colinseymour.co.uk > > Tech Stuff: http://www.lildude.co.uk > > > > > > -- > Colin Seymour > Blog: http://www.colinseymour.co.uk > Tech Stuff: http://www.lildude.co.uk > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
