Moving to Leopard

I have spent my last hours on installing the all-new Leopard on my Mac, it actually went pretty fast. I haven’t had much time to check out the entire thing as I’ve been busy setting up my development environment (Apache, PHP, MySQL).

The good thing is that Leopard ships with Apache 2 and PHP 5.2 pre installed, so you only need to make a couple of changes to get Apache and PHP running in no time, I’ll explain how to do that. The bad news is that the current MySQL package file does not fully work on Leopard, well, the engine actually works, it’s the preference pane that does not work yet, so you won’t be able to use that to stop and start you MySQL DB, I’ll post a nice trick to get that running as well.

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