Local Installation of phpWCMS

[anthony.abraira]

Hello folks,

I was going to avoid posting this, but I couldn't find anything threads that discussed this in depth.

I am trying to install phpwcms locally on my macbook pro. I have gone ahead and enabled the php module feature as well as install MySQL locally. The installation hasn't been stalled due to the failed installation of GD2 on my system. I looked on Google and found this page that seems to handle the procedure quite thoroughly.

http://www.paginar.net/matias/articles/gd_x_howto.html

However after following the instructions, I was unable to get the configuration to look like this:

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** Configuration summary for gd 2.0.33:

   Support for PNG library:          yes
   Support for JPEG library:         yes
   Support for Freetype 2.x library: yes
   Support for Fontconfig library:   yes
   Support for Xpm library:          yes
   Support for pthreads:             yes

Instead it said this,

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** Configuration summary for gd 2.0.33:

   Support for PNG library:          yes
   Support for JPEG library:         yes
   Support for Freetype 2.x library: no
   Support for Fontconfig library:   no
   Support for Xpm library:          yes
   Support for pthreads:             yes

Now when I go to the intial setup screen it still tells me that the GD feature is not installed. I was wondering if anybody had figured this little problem out?

[Oliver Georgi]

Don't use built-in Apache/PHP on Mac OS X - use MAMP:
http://www.mamp.info/en/home.php

Oliver

[anthony.abraira]

Thanks Oli for that....however that doesn't really fix the problem I have with getting GD2 to work on OSX...unless MAMP takes care of that tooo...

say its so....

thanks again

[Oliver Georgi]

hm, don't understand your post in total - but Mamp should solve all your problems because it has everything enabled by default.

Oliver

[anthony.abraira]

Sorry ... hasty english is harder to understand...here is a pic of my setup screen:

<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/anthony.abr ... 7218"><img src="http://lh5.google.com/image/anthony.abr ... screen.jpg" /></a>

I want to enable GD. If you read earlier in my post I found an article that permitted this feature to be installed on 10.4.8 Server. However, I haven't been able to successfully complete that installation. Is there an easy to install GD package for OSX?

[Oliver Georgi]

Go on here:
http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/php/

But my recommendation is to use MAMP in case you just want to test web stuff locally.

Oliver

[Peekay]

say its so....

It's so! well, according to the MAMP distro page:

http://www.mamp.info/en/releases.php

GD lib is installed as part of MAMP.

[anthony.abraira]

Alright...i'll try ... however during the installation it still said that the GD library was off. do i have to install the phpwcms installation inside the 'htdocs' directory? (i sense that's a stupid question)

aa

[Peekay]

I use XAMPP on the PC (a similar PHP/MySQL solution) and assuming MAMP uses the same structure, htdocs is where you would install PHPWCMS.

If you want to build several sites, create folders under htdocs and install PHPWCMS in them. You will need to edit the config file for each installation to add the correct database info and file paths. Search the docs and this forum for more info on that.