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For some reason you need to uncomment your mod_rewrite module in apache’s config file in order for apache to start through XAMPP.

XAMPP on IntelMac Instructions:
1. download and install XAMPP for MAC (ppc).
2. open /Applications/xampp/etc/httpd.conf
3. insert a # in front of LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
4. Save the File
5. Start XAMPP

Comments to “XAMPP on IntelMacs”

sherwin says:

September 11, 2006 at 7:08 pm

thanks for the tip, but it’s weird when i type “pear list”, pear isn’t even listed and i can’t even upgrade pear. the error says that pear has to be > 1.3x or something like that. any ideas?

sherwin says:

September 11, 2006 at 7:08 pm

sherwin says:

September 11, 2006 at 7:08 pm

sherwin says:

September 11, 2006 at 7:20 pm

well now i get a “Could not get contents of package “/Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/bin/pear”. Invalid tgz file.” error. i’ve been at this for days. tried MAMP, now XAMPP. hope you can help me coz the documentation on either is little to none

sherwin says:

September 11, 2006 at 7:20 pm

sherwin says:

September 11, 2006 at 7:20 pm

JaredB says:

September 11, 2006 at 10:47 pm

Apple should borrow another feature from Linux - package managers. Then you could install Apache, MySQL, and PHP / Perl in a matter of seconds / minutes. Maybe they already have this and I just don’t know about it. If so, I’d recommend going that route rather than XAMPP.

I probably should have read and responded to this when you first posted it, but does what you (Dan) described in this post mean that XAMPP (on the Mac, at least) does not support mod_rewrite? If so, does that jack with your permalink settings when you’re testing WP blogs in it?

JaredB says:

September 11, 2006 at 10:47 pm

JaredB says:

September 11, 2006 at 10:47 pm

sherwin says:

September 12, 2006 at 7:12 am

i agree, well i found fink for os x recently but have yet to to play with it. i got it to finally work with a little more help from http://www.apachefriends.org/f/viewtopic.php?p=74251. but once i started up xampp i get a message that says no package installed. wow! it was working a few minutes before. i then stopped xampp and that was it, broken i even ran it as root and still nothing. so i gave up and reinstalled PHP5. only reason i wanted to run xampp was the PHP4 support on Mactel machines and PHP4 is what’s on my webserver. so i wanted to develop stuff on my MBP. now i’m forced to develop on PHP5 and hope it runs on PHP4 haha (until they release PHP4 for the intel macs).

sherwin says:

September 12, 2006 at 7:12 am

i agree, well i found fink for os x recently but have yet to to play with it. i got it to finally work with a little more help from http://www.apachefriends.org/f/viewtopic.php?p=.... but once i started up xampp i get a message that says no package installed. wow! it was working a few minutes before. i then stopped xampp and that was it, broken i even ran it as root and still nothing. so i gave up and reinstalled PHP5. only reason i wanted to run xampp was the PHP4 support on Mactel machines and PHP4 is what’s on my webserver. so i wanted to develop stuff on my MBP. now i’m forced to develop on PHP5 and hope it runs on PHP4 haha (until they release PHP4 for the intel macs).

sherwin says:

September 12, 2006 at 7:12 am

Dan says:

September 12, 2006 at 7:54 am

No OS X doesn’t use a package manager per-se but the developers of the FOSS could create an installer package. MySQL, Apache and PHP for example all have packages/installers for OS X. The problem that we have is they aren’t universal binary or compiled for intel so certain things don’t work, like mod_rewrite.

Fink is a great way to get “the full world of Unix on OS X”. So you can then use apt-get if you wanted.

OS X does support mod_rewrite, on PPC it worked fine but now it doesn’t because the devs haven’t supported it yet.

The good thing is, out of the box you have a webserver already. You just need to enable PHP and MySQL. I just went the route of XAMPP because it was (supposed) to be easier and the latest versions instead of updating the already installed packages. I also like how XAMPP let’s you decide whether you want PHP5 or 4.

sherwin: That sucks, I don’t have any problems except mod_rewrite, which isn’t that big of a deal. I’d say you did something wrong but you’ve been working on it for a while it sounds like.

Dan says:

September 12, 2006 at 7:54 am

Fink is a great way to get “the full world of Unix on OS X”. So you can then use apt-get if you wanted.

OS X does support mod_rewrite, on PPC it worked fine but now it doesn’t because the devs haven’t supported it yet.

sherwin: That sucks, I don’t have any problems except mod_rewrite, which isn’t that big of a deal. I’d say you did something wrong but you’ve been working on it for a while it sounds like.

Dan says:

September 12, 2006 at 7:54 am

Fink is a great way to get “the full world of Unix on OS X”. So you can then use apt-get if you wanted.

OS X does support mod_rewrite, on PPC it worked fine but now it doesn’t because the devs haven’t supported it yet.

sherwin: That sucks, I don’t have any problems except mod_rewrite, which isn’t that big of a deal. I’d say you did something wrong but you’ve been working on it for a while it sounds like.

Dan says:

September 12, 2006 at 9:06 am

I also missed that XAMPP might work on the Mac Book Pro perfectly fine it just doesn’t on the Mac Pro becuase it’s 64bit.

Dan says:

September 12, 2006 at 9:06 am

I also missed that XAMPP might work on the Mac Book Pro perfectly fine it just doesn’t on the Mac Pro becuase it’s 64bit.

Dan says:

September 12, 2006 at 9:06 am

I also missed that XAMPP might work on the Mac Book Pro perfectly fine it just doesn’t on the Mac Pro becuase it’s 64bit.

Nate says:

September 22, 2006 at 10:00 am

Thank you. Thank you. Simple, straightforward and most importantly…it worked (the Xampp thing).

Nate says:

September 22, 2006 at 10:00 am

Thank you. Thank you. Simple, straightforward and most importantly…it worked (the Xampp thing).

Nate says:

September 22, 2006 at 10:00 am

Thank you. Thank you. Simple, straightforward and most importantly…it worked (the Xampp thing).

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