A few days ago I found out some of the little things osx has to offer. I was thinking about learning Ruby on Rails and found out that 10.5 Leopard already had RoR built in. Wow thats cool, I did not need to go out and figure out how to get that set up. Apple even had a page on how to set up Xcode’s organizer to edit and start the web server to test RoR stuff locally. I ended up deciding not to learn RoR, at least not yet. My reasons being that it is not supported by every host yet and I do not know PHP or any other comparable language. After talking to a friend I decided that I should learn PHP. If I did not have 4 midterm’s this week I would be pretty far through the books I am reading. But back to OS X, Apache httpd is present and so is PHP (Im not running OS X server and I have it). What makes this even cooler is that their not some old versions, their some of the latest. Ok well they might a .1 release behind but so what. PHP was not enabled by default, I had to go into the httpd.conf and remove the # before the PHP module. I also set up Mysql, I had to change the socket that mysql uses, but this was not difficult. Maybe in the future I can put together how I set everything set up, Google is your friend though. If you would like me to write up how I set everything up post something in the comments (Currently you need to register to comment). Oh yeah I used the Terminal a lot for all of this (pico makes it easy to edit files).
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