Comments on: AMP for development on Mac OS X: MAMP http://www.estadieu.com/blog/2007/02/06/amp-for-development-on-mac-os-x-mamp/ notes on whatever and more... Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:08:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Jonathan Arnold http://www.estadieu.com/blog/2007/02/06/amp-for-development-on-mac-os-x-mamp/comment-page-1/#comment-5005 Jonathan Arnold Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:06:45 +0000 http://gestadieu.free.fr/blog/?p=80#comment-5005 Vilo: 1. $PATH refers to an environment variable enumerating the directories in your path...which are set for bash(the bourne again shell, the shell that is included with OSX) in a file called .profile located in a users(you hve a user account on your mac) home directory which you can get to in the terminal by typing cd ~ your home folder would be somewhere like /Users/username 2. OSX comes preinstalled with php 4...and pear...the are sitting in /usr/bin....which incidentally is in your path when you start a new shell ...so instead of typing /usr/bin/php which is long and tedious...if something is in your path you could just at the bash prompt type php...now...if we are gonna add the php bin directory...where the new php executable is to our path...then we are going to be confused..which php is which...we thus rename the php executable in /usr/bin to php-old or something ...and likewise for pear....add the mamp bin directory to our path...voila now we can run php jsut by typing php from the command line and guess what...its the new php5 executable included with mamp that we are running Vilo:

1. $PATH refers to an environment variable enumerating the directories in your path…which are set for bash(the bourne again shell, the shell that is included with OSX) in a file called .profile located in a users(you hve a user account on your mac) home directory which you can get to in the terminal by typing cd ~

your home folder would be somewhere like /Users/username

2. OSX comes preinstalled with php 4…and pear…the are sitting in /usr/bin….which incidentally is in your path when you start a new shell …so instead of typing /usr/bin/php which is long and tedious…if something is in your path you could just at the bash prompt type php…now…if we are gonna add the php bin directory…where the new php executable is to our path…then we are going to be confused..which php is which…we thus rename the php executable in /usr/bin to php-old or something …and likewise for pear….add the mamp bin directory to our path…voila now we can run php jsut by typing php from the command line and guess what…its the new php5 executable included with mamp that we are running

]]> By: Vilo http://www.estadieu.com/blog/2007/02/06/amp-for-development-on-mac-os-x-mamp/comment-page-1/#comment-4849 Vilo Sun, 25 Mar 2007 18:09:16 +0000 http://gestadieu.free.fr/blog/?p=80#comment-4849 also... in step 1 you say ... "(in our case we want php5)" and then in step 2 you are moving php4 and pear4 it is confusing. also…
in step 1 you say … “(in our case we want php5)” and then in step 2 you are moving php4 and pear4

it is confusing.

]]> By: Vilo http://www.estadieu.com/blog/2007/02/06/amp-for-development-on-mac-os-x-mamp/comment-page-1/#comment-4847 Vilo Sun, 25 Mar 2007 17:56:10 +0000 http://gestadieu.free.fr/blog/?p=80#comment-4847 Thanks for the effort but your instructions are not clear to me. Little more description would be much appraciated. I do not understand following: "1. We will add one line in your PATH" ... what path? path in what? where? path in PHP? path in MAMP? path in Apache? "Add in your home folder a .profile file" ... what is home folder? htdocs? bin? php5? thanks for your help Thanks for the effort but your instructions are not clear to me. Little more description would be much appraciated.

I do not understand following:

“1. We will add one line in your PATH” … what path? path in what? where? path in PHP? path in MAMP? path in Apache?

“Add in your home folder a .profile file” … what is home folder? htdocs? bin? php5?

thanks for your help

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