At 6:30 AM -0500 6/29/10, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Jun 29, 2010, at 02:10, Bill Christensen wrote:
The other day I attempted to clone a working MAMP server from a G4
PPC to an Intel machine and discovered that I basically need to
reinstall everything from scratch to get the intel versions. Yes,
I've now read the page on migrating.
Yes, cloning a MacPorts installation from one machine to another is
not advisable unless both machines are running the same version of
Mac OS X and have the same processor architecture.
I'll probably just do a fresh install of 10.6.4.
You are welcome to do so but if your only goal is to remove the
MacPorts installation cloned from the other machine, you can just
remove the directories you copied in order to clone it. Or you can
follow the MacPorts uninstall instructions in the guide:
http://guide.macports.org/chunked/installing.macports.uninstalling.html
I've also scanned through the archives from the past year and it
appears that the dbs are now installed separately from Apache.
Not sure what you're referring to... The apache2 port has never been
related to database ports like mysql5 and postgresql84; they have
nothing to do with one another and have always been installed
separately.
Sorry, I was referring to the command
install port php5 +apache2 +mysql5
Scott Haneda clarified to me earlier today that you can now do
install port php5
install port php5-mysql
install port php5-postgresql
etc. (or maybe you always could, but I wasn't aware of it).
So before I go and bang my head against this again, I figured I'd
double check on the correct procedure.
This time around I'll be installing:
Apache2
MySQL5
PHP5
Postgresql84
We have some of this documented in the wiki:
http://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/MAMP
I have not read this document recently so I don't know how
up-to-date or accurate it is. If you find inaccuracies, please let
us know or log in and fix it directly.
Last time through (a bit over a year ago) I had to install Apache,
then MySQL5 +server, then PHP5 +MySQL +Apache2, then tweak the php
config file to include mysql, uninstall PHP, then reinstall PHP5
+MySQL +Apache2. Is that no longer the case? Does the install
order matter?
mysql5's +server variant is gone; you now use the separate
mysql5-server port if you want to run a MySQL server.
php5's +mysql5 variant is gone; you now use the separate php5-mysql
port. (It has variants for selecting the method of interacting with
the MySQL server but the default +mysqlnd should be fine.)
I don't know what you had to change in the php config file to make
MySQL work before. When installing php5-mysql today, you should
receive a message advising you what you need to change in php.ini to
make it work.
The changes to php config were to get the correct settings for my
needs - some of which weren't there by default. Install, go to the
portfile, change the config settings as needed, uninstall, then
reinstall.
I can't imagine a reason why you would have had to uninstall php5
then reinstall it. If you believe you are in need of that again,
please let us know what you're experiencing so we can know what's
wrong.
Is there anything I need to look out for with PostgreSQL?
I do not know; I have never used it. I know that it too has separate
ports: postgresql84 if you want the client libraries,
postgresql84-server if you also want to run a PostgreSQL server. And
if you want PHP to be able to talk to PostgreSQL databases, then you
want the php5-postgresql port. (It has variants for selecting the
PostgreSQL version but the default +postgresql84 should be fine for
you.)
I'll also be installing the following:
GD2
Imagemagick
Postfix
AWStats
Mailman
Webmin
phpMyAdmin
phppgAdmin
Any gotchas I need to watch out for?
Various php5 features are no longer installed by default, and are
instead in separate ports. PHP's gd support is for example now in
the php5-gd port. PHP can use ImageMagick via the php5-imagick port.
"port echo name:php5-" will show you the other ports that are
available.
Got it. Thanks for the clarification.
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