How to get a working XAMP stack with brew

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For Brew driven MAMP with Apache2, PHP 5.3 and MySQL 5.1

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If you have MacPorts install - you probably should move it to avoid any unintentional conflicts.

Install brew (assuming that you have Xcode installed).

$ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSLk https://gist.github.com/raw/323731/install_homebrew.rb)"

Install git and bash completion.

$ brew install git
$ brew install bash-completion

Install dnsmasq for local wildcard domain.

$ brew install dnsmasq
$ cp /usr/local/Cellar/dnsmasq/*/dnsmasq.conf.example /usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.conf
$ sudo cp /usr/local/Cellar/dnsmasq/2.57/uk.org.thekelleys.dnsmasq.plist /Library/LaunchDaemons
$ sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/uk.org.thekelleys.dnsmasq.plist

Edit your dnsmasq.conf and add an entry for your local development domain. At Good Old we generally use the develpers first name or nick as top level domain. That way we can check out each others work without having to change the IP for *.dev or a similarly generic domain. For me that would be:

address=/.hugo/127.0.0.1

You can also add your colleagues like this:

address=/.simme/192.168.4.123

Restart dnsmasq to let the configuration changes take effect.

$ sudo launchctl stop uk.org.thekelleys.dnsmasq
$ sudo launchctl start uk.org.thekelleys.dnsmasq

Install mysql and follow the instructions:

$ brew install mysql

Open the apache config:

$ mate /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

...uncomment the following

LoadModule php5_module        libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

...and add the following:

# add this at the end of the file
Include /Users/hugowett/Projects/apache.conf

Create the apache.conf file with the following contents

# get the server name from the Host: header
UseCanonicalName Off

# include the server name in the filenames used to satisfy requests
VirtualDocumentRoot /Users/hugowett/Projects/%0/public_html
<Directory "/Users/hugowett/Projects">
  Options FollowSymLinks
  AllowOverride All
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all
</Directory>

...and restart.

$ sudo apachectl graceful

Now you should have a working XAMP stack. Just add a "domain.hugo" directory to ~/Projects with a public_html dir inside and it will be available as a local site.

This is an optional step: get the Good Old bin package and add it to your profile:

$ mkdir ~/bin
$ cd ~/bin
$ git clone http://github.com/goodold/goodold-bin.git
$ echo "source \$HOME/bin/goodold-bin/goodold_profile" >> ~/.bash_profile

...or, if you already have it, run a update:

$ ~/bin/goodold-bin/goodold-selfupdate

Start a new shell or reload your profile to get the correct paths:

$ source .bash_profile