Two ggod links are:

Building and Installing Apache 2 and PHP 5.0.5 on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger

Building and Installing Apache 2 and PHP 5.1.1 on Mac OS X 10.4.3 Tiger

that apache install guide works for apache but trying to intall php fails beause the apxs is not found properly. In the apache config you have to add a line but i couldn't understand since this is the first time i tried it also and it failed on me. the apache2 directory was created and so was the bin/apxs file but no go.

Might want to give people more info for an article named "Install Apache2, PHP5, and MySQL5" than:

1. Install Apache 2
2. Install MySQL5
3. Install PHP5
4. Make a folder (you might want to say why you want people to do this)
5. Add the config lines (most helpful piece of info you've posted)
6. Reboot and start the server

Seriously... The comment linking to phpmac had more useful info for people who haven't done this before. People who have done this before would understand how to do those steps, but they wouldn't need them in the first place.

Having config examples like:

~/Desktop/apache-2.0.54 $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache2
~/Desktop/apache-2.0.54 $ make
~/Desktop/apache-2.0.54 $ sudo make install

and

~/Desktop/php-5.1.0 $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/php --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql --with-mysqli=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config --with-xml --enable-simplexml --with-config-file-path=/usr/local/php/lib
~/Desktop/php-5.1.0 $ make
~/Desktop/php-5.1.0 $ sudo make install

Would help people a little more.

Indeed, why would you want to make the symbolic link to /opt?

I am by no means a terminal guru but I have installed several things from source. I agree, this hint is of little use. Why bother with these ultra simplified steps? Who does this serve?

The phpmac links provided above at least give you some background...

Personally I'd like to thank the poster for taking the time, giving the proper links etc... Thanks! And if other posters can improve all the better: that's the spirit.

I have to agree with the problems for with this hint. It's all very well being grateful for the links, but a hint that involves doing something serious in 'guts' of your system had better be clear and correct.

As far as I know, the php install from entropy.ch doesn't work with Apache2. Also, this hint doesn't seem to actually say how to start Apache or even to install it. Certainly making Apache start up on boot if you have Apache 1.3 and Apache 2 both installed is not trivial, yet this hint doesn't mention it.

Marc (entropy.ch) did heroic work in the early days of OS X in getting PHP working on the Mac, but nowadays a source install is probably a better idea. You get the latest version of PHP and you can get the settings you need.

The opt alias seems to have no purpose. I've been running Apache, PHP and MySQL on my machine since 10.0 and I've never heard of a opt requirement for anything on OS X - yet alone for Apache.

The title of this hint is kind of misleading.

I believe this hint is for the users who want to use Entropy's PHP 5 package with their Complete Apache 2 installation in OS X client.

As you might know, current Entropy's PHP 5.0.4 package was complied for the OS X Server, not the client version. so the 'opt' folder comes in here to imitate the OS X Server directory structure. (the original Apache web server that comes with OS X Server is located in /opt/apache2)

There are lots of options we can install A2P5M5 nowadays, but again, it is a good idea to check other resources available on the Web (including the link laurencewilks mentioned above) and understand exactly what you are doing before making any modifications to your precious system.

I also question the value of this hint and who it's really intended to serve. I think it's an unnecessary oversimplification and trivialization of what even some experienced admins consider a fairly complicated installation/configuration process. And linking directly to specific versions of this software is a poor practice since it's updated fairly frequently, sometimes with important security fixes. Pick your favorite "handing a loaded gun to a child" analogy to describe how I generally feel about this hint.

What miname wrote about about checking other resources and understanding what you're doing is good advice when setting up a web server, especially if it's going to be on the internet. Same's generally true with other network services, too.

How is this better than using MAMP?

http://www.mamp.info/en/home/

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Greg Raven
Apple Valley, CA

For example, MAMP currently only comes with PHP 5.0.4. If you need 5.1, you have to install it manually.

MAMP does NOT incorporate MySQL 5; it still uses MySQL 4.1.12. See:
http://www.mamp.info/en/help/releases/#1.1.1

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Roger
Lovettsville, VA

MAMP is only for Web development (as EasyPHP on Wintel)
It is not for a production server (MAMP is not secure).

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To the one who is hungry, rather than to give him some fish, learn him how to fish.

mysql 5 new release :
http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.0/mysql-standard-5.0.19-osx10.4-powerpc-64bit.dmg/from/http://mysql.crihan.fr/

5.0.20 was announced a couple days ago but so far binary distributions are only available for 10.3 (PPC) and 10.4 (x86).

Building and Installing Apache 2.2.2 and PHP 5.1.4 on Mac OS X 10.4.6

http://www.phpmac.com/articles.php?view=252

this will only work if you have XCode installed - get it for free at Apple's Developer website

In Terminal...

Download

wget http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.0/mysql-max-5.0.24-osx10.4-powerpc.tar.gz/from/http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/mysql/
wget http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/httpd-2.2.3.tar.gz
wget http://www.php.net/distributions/php-5.1.5.tar.gz

<!-- you can replace wget by curl -O >

Decompress
gnutar -xzf mysql-max-5.0.24-osx10.4-powerpc.tar.gz
gnutar -xzf httpd-2.2.3.tar.gz
gnutar -xzf php-5.1.5.tar.gz

Backup mysql data and install mysql
cp -Rp /usr/local/mysql/data /Users/your_user_name/
rm -rf /usr/local/mysql
mv mysql-max-5.0.24-osx10.4-powerpc /usr/local/mysql
rm -rf /usr/local/mysql/data
mv data /usr/local/mysql/data

Compile Apache
cd httpd-2.2.3
./configure --prefix=/Library/Apache2 --enable-access --enable-actions --enable-alias --enable-asis --enable-auth --enable-auth_dbm --enable-auth_digest --enable-autoindex --enable-cache --enable-cgi --enable-dav --enable-dav_fs --enable-deflate --enable-dir --enable-disk_cache --enable-dumpio --enable-env --enable-expires --enable-fastcgi --enable-file_cache --enable-headers --enable-imap --enable-include --enable-info --enable-log_config --enable-log_forensic --enable-logio --enable-mem_cache --enable-mime --enable-mime_magic --enable-negotiation --enable-perl --enable-rewrite --enable-setenvif --enable-speling --enable-ssl --enable-status --enable-suexec --enable-unique_id --enable-userdir --enable-usertrack --enable-version --enable-vhost_alias --enable-so --enable-module=all --enable-shared=max
make
make install

Compile php
cd php-5.1.5
mkdir /usr/local/php
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/php --with-zlib --with-xml --with-xsl --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql --with-apxs2=/Library/Apache2/bin/apxs
make
make install
cp php.ini-dist /usr/local/php/lib/php.ini

Add in httpd.conf (Library/Apache2/conf)
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

sudo /Library/Apache2/bin/apachectl start

Thanks to bofh

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Followed this a few times, even reinstalled dev tools just in case, but get this error:

/Library/Apache2/bin/apachectl: line 102: 22898 Segmentation fault $HTTPD -k $ARGV


Help!?
Thanks in advance.