Running Drupal 8 and PHP 5.3.8+ on Mac OSX

tomo — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 01:41:59 +0000

I develop on my MacBook Pro and when building Drupal 6 sites, I had to run PHP 5.2 because there were many conflicts in Drupal 6 core and contributed modules which meant running on PHP 5.3 either threw up errors or didn't run properly. Since I run XAMPP for Mac OS X, I also run phpswitch which lets me switch from XAMPP using PHP 5.2 to PHP 5.3 and back.

Unfortunately, Drupal 8 not only requires PHP 5.3 but PHP 5.3.5 or higher. Drupal 7 ran fine on PHP 5.2.5 or higher with PHP 5.3 recommended.

1) XAMPP Mac OS X 1.7.3 comes with: Apache 2.2.14, MySQL 5.1.44, PHP 5.3.1.

XAMPP: Apache Vhosts with SSL

tomo — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:21:03 +0000

I needed to test out ssl on my Macbook as a web server with XAMPP. It took more effort than it should have because I was using virtual hosts as well.

xampp

Running Drupal 8 and PHP 5.3.8+ on Mac OSX

XAMPP: Apache Vhosts with SSL