Comments on: Setting up Apache on Snow Leopard

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:09:52 +0000

Thanks for the detailed instructions! Was following another tutorial on someone else’s website and I couldn’t get past 403 error. But thank goodness I found your article and it solved my problem immediately!

By: srini

srini — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 19:54:35 +0000

change the permission to the appache2 folder as read and write access.. then u can save it dude

By: Kristin

Kristin — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:53:32 +0000

Hi, thanks for an informative article. I wanted to ask what may seem an obvious question – can I run the native OSX and MAMP on the same machine? I would like to do this as my MAMP servers is set up exclusively for Drupal multisite and I would like to do some plain php (without the drupal) stuff on the native OSX server. I don’t want to mess around with anything until I’m sure this can be done.

Thanks
K

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:26:38 +0000

Thank you very much for putting this together. I’ve been working on getting rid of MAMP and moving everything over to the native OSX. It was confusing because with MAMP I had two PHP’s and two MySQL’s installed. It was tricky to get everything straight. Your article was the most helpful, accurate and clearly-written of anything I’ve seen on the web in the last couple of days.

By: Ellen

Ellen — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:27:14 +0000

Hi Kev,

Your info has been really helpful. HOWEVER, I am having issues! I set everything up as you described for my Sites folder. In my sites folder I have /sites-name/ and then inside that a WordPress site. The homepage works great, but all other pages and posts give me a 500 Internal Server Error. I’ve noticed when I turn AllowOverride back to “None” I then get a 404 error instead.

I also have another site in progress in another folder under Sites – haven’t found this problem so far.

Any ideas what is causing this?! Is it WordPress? There is no .htaccess file in my WordPress folders, not sure whether that makes a difference.

Thanks

By: Elim

Elim — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:17:11 +0000

I don’t think localhost and 127.0.0.1 will make any differences. The problem of connection is mainly the location of mysql.sock if mysql shell is working and port number has not been changed.

Once I corrected the mysql.sock path in php.ini, restart apache should make apache+php+mysql working

By: Jim Forsyth

Jim Forsyth — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 21:26:57 +0000

Hi Kev. Quite simply, you are a legend. I’ve just wiped clean and re-installed my entire system, which has been made a whole lot easier by following your step-by-step guide. Nice one

By: kev

kev — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:56:23 +0000

Hi Tanner. Try checking your config for errors. Terminal: apachectl configtest. Also make sure that you still have: 127.0.0.1 localhost in your hosts file (it should be the first line after the #comments).

By: Tanner Hans

Tanner Hans — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 22:02:53 +0000

I followed all given hints, but as soon as i activated virtual host in httpd.conf (line 461), I can’t access http://localhost/ no more, nor phpmyadmin. I get the message 403 forbidden: You don’t have permission to access…

I’m a little desperate and grateful for help!

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 23:17:04 +0000

I tried to get clean urls so many ineffective ways and finally got it thanks to your last box:

Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks

Thank you thank you thank you