Fortunately enabling both php and installing mysql is trivial on OSX compared even to linux

type in terminal

sudo pico /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

press the down arrow untill you see this line

#LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

delete the “#” at the start of the line by pressing right arrow and delete

press ctrl+x

press y

press enter

(you need to use console to edit this file because osx has no way to access that file in a open file window from any program)

go and download the package for your architecture and osx version , install it and the pref pane

open System Preferences and click MySQL > Start MySQL Server

open terminal and type :

/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqladmin -u root password “MYPASS”

/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqladmin -u root -h MYHOSTNAME password “MYPASS”

change MYPASS to what you want your mysql password to be and MYHOSTNAME to the machine’s hostname (it is shown in terminal along with your user name like this [myuser@myhostname:~])

3 – done , you are the owner of a AMP (apache/mysql/php) server , now you can harness the huge amount of free web software running on this ,

as a test that everything worked fine you can install phpMyAdmin as you will probably need it anyway , go to http://www.phpmyadmin.net and extract it to /Library/WebServer/Documents/phpmyadmin

open /Library/WebServer/Documents/phpmyadmin/config.default.inc.php in a text editor

find

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = ‘localhost’;

and replace localhost with your hostname

save the file as /Library/WebServer/Documents/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php

done , open http://myhostname/phpmyadmin and login with user: root , password:what you set before