Installing Hiawatha Webserver on Mac OS X and running Symphony CMS
SCREENCASTS
- Part One: Installing Hiawatha Web Server and running Symphony CMS on Mac OS X (5 min) -- watch
- Part Two: Installing Hiawatha Web Server and running Symphony CMS on Mac OS X (5 min) -- watch
- Part Three: Installing Hiawatha Web Server and running Symphony CMS on Mac OS X (4 min 56 seconds) -- watch
SCREENCAST NOTES:
PREREQUISITES
- Have Git installed on your machine
- Have PHP and MySQL installed on your machine. I installed mine with Homebrew
- Homebrew MySQL, http://www.andrewsavory.com/blog/2011/2144
- Homebrew PHP, https://github.com/josegonzalez/homebrew-php
- Follow Jose Gonzalez's included instructions and the portion when you run brew install, run it with the following flags,
brew install php54 --with-mysql --with-fpm
and then after installing you can runbrew info php54
and look for instructions, "If you have installed the formula with --with-fpm"
- Follow Jose Gonzalez's included instructions and the portion when you run brew install, run it with the following flags,
- Download Sequel Pro for Mac OS X (Open Source GUI for MySQL), http://www.sequelpro.com
1) Download Hiawatha Mac OS X package
http://www.hiawatha-webserver.org/download
2) Install Hiawatha Web Server and check to see if it is running
- It installs into
/usr/local/etc/hiawatha
- Open your browser and browse to http://localhost or http://127.0.0.1
3) Setup Hiawatha configuration to run a Symphony CMS site
- The
hiawatha.conf
file is found in/usr/local/etc/hiawatha
directory
4) Setup database for Symphony
- Open Sequel Pro and add a new database.
5) Download and install Symphony
- Go to Symphony's Github repository, https://github.com/symphonycms/symphony-2 and follow the instructions in the README… look for Installing Symphony via Git and follow those instructions.