Building the MAMP stack (php, apache & mysql) on Apple Silicon ARM (native)
In this tutorial, we'll build the the nescessary packages for ARM via homebrew. After that we'll configure apache2 for using virtual hosts. The native php is ofcourse way faster, see the results of this benchmark below.
| TEST NAME | SECONDS | OP/SEC |
|---|---|---|
| Rosetta2 | 191.654 sec | 1.96 MOp/s |
| Intel i7-4790K (imac 2014) | 156.791 sec | 2.39 MOp/s |
| Intel i5-8500B (mini 2018) | 141.381 sec | 2.65 MOp/s |
| ARM m1 | 43.745 sec | 8.58 MOp/s |
Installing homebrew
cd ~
mkdir homebrew && curl -L https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/tarball/master | tar xz --strip 1 -C homebrew
sudo mv homebrew /opt/homebrew
This way homebrew will be installed to the /opt/homebrew folder. We can then initiate homebrew by cd to that directory and run brew in the bin folder.
cd /opt/homebrew/bin
./brew update
If not installed already, the system will ask to install the command-line tools for developers for you. Go ahead.
Now add the homebrew/bin directory to your path by editing/creating a .zshrc file in your home directory.
nano ~/.zshrc
export PATH="/opt/homebrew/bin:$PATH"
Build the packages
Note: checkout this comment if you have problems building python.
brew install -s mysql php@7.4 httpd
This might take some time (30mins) or so. When everything is done it will list some next steps like adding the php module to apache.
Configuration
Make life a bit easier by symlinking the config directories to a rememberable path:
mkdir ~/MAMP
mkdir ~/MAMP/www
ln -s /opt/homebrew/etc/httpd ~/MAMP/httpd
ln -s /opt/homebrew/etc/php/7.4 ~/MAMP/php
Now, let's add some scripts to this directory
nano ~/MAMP/start.sh
start.sh:
#!/bin/zsh
brew services start mysql
brew services start php@7.4
brew services start httpd
stop.sh:
#!/bin/zsh
brew services stop mysql
brew services stop php@7.4
brew services stop httpd
restart.sh:
#!/bin/zsh
brew services restart mysql
brew services restart php@7.4
brew services restart httpd
Make 'em writable:
chmod +x ~/MAMP/start.sh
chmod +x ~/MAMP/stop.sh
chmod +x ~/MAMP/restart.sh
Oke, lets configure apache/httpd for usage with php and enable mod_rewrite along the way:
nano ~/MAMP/httpd/httpd.conf
Uncomment:
# LoadModule rewrite_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_rewrite.so
Change the DocumentRoot:
DocumentRoot "/Users/{username}/MAMP/www"
<Directory "/Users/{username}/MAMP/www">
And add the following to the bottom:
LoadModule php7_module /opt/homebrew/opt/php@7.4/lib/httpd/modules/libphp7.so
<FilesMatch \.php$>
SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
</FilesMatch>
Include /opt/homebrew/etc/httpd/vhosts/*.conf
Now create a directory named vhosts
mkdir ~/MAMP/httpd/vhosts
Addding a website / virtual host
mkdir ~/MAMP/www/dev.example.com
mkdir ~/MAMP/www/dev.example.com/public_html
mkdir ~/MAMP/www/dev.example.com/logs
nano ~/MAMP/httpd/vhosts/dev.example.com.conf
Add:
<VirtualHost *:8080>
DocumentRoot "/Users/{username}/MAMP/www/dev.example.com/public_html"
ServerName dev.example.com
ErrorLog "/Users/{username}/MAMP/www/dev.example.com/logs/error.log"
CustomLog "/Users/{username}/MAMP/www/dev.example.com/logs/custom.log" common
</VirtualHost>
<Directory /Users/{username}/MAMP/www/dev.example.com/public_html>
Options FollowSymLinks Includes
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
Add dev.example.com to your hosts file
echo '127.0.0.1 dev.example.com' | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts
Now restart:
~/MAMP/restart.sh
Troubleshooting
Check the output of the following commands:
sudo apachectl start
If you have see a message saying something like Address already in use: AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to address, try changing the Listen config in httpd.conf to:
Listen 0.0.0.0:8080
Check if your config is valid:
apachectl configtest
Vist http://dev.example.com:8080
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Doesn't seem to compile MySQL or PHP for me. I get this far:
Not sure if this is relevant.
Running a M1 Apple MBP.