Comments on: Enable mod_rewrite on OS X 10.4 (Tiger)

By: david

david — Tue, 20 May 2008 03:25:19 +0000

I think I did everything right but when i tried to pull up my php site i got this:
You don’t have permission to access /~david/elgreco/index.php on this server.

any idea what i may have done wrong?

-david

By: paul

paul — Thu, 01 May 2008 03:36:39 +0000

For OS X 10.4.11, Got this working with Drupal in the user/Sites dir, but needed one extra step.

– modifying the [user].conf will allow .htaccess in the [user]/Sites/[drupal dir] to override the setting.
– this site though is http://localhost/~user/drupal dir]
– therefore in the .htaccess within the drupal directory needs to define where its root is through a “RewriteBase”
– uncomment and change to “RewriteBase /~[user]/[drupal dir]”

hope this helps a few.

By: Senning

Senning — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:37:21 +0000

If you’re having trouble because your webserver keeps looking for your ./Sites/ files at /Library/WebServer/Documents/, and you don’t need to access /Library/etc…, you can add DocumentRoot “/Users/[username]/Sites/” to “yourname.conf”.
I’m assuming that it is nicer to put it in yourname.conf so other users won’t be redirected to the same, but I’m not an expert.

By: at0g

at0g — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:44:43 +0000

Thanks guys, I had the same issue as Midiman… Thanks all the way from New Zealand =)

By: Leopard and mod_rewrite | Web Developer Blog

Leopard and mod_rewrite | Web Developer Blog — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 03:08:52 +0000

[...] getting mod_rewrite to work in Leopard. The solution for me was the second set of instructions on Michael Krol’s blog. His was intended for Tiger, but worked for me nonetheless. I didn’t need to edit the [...]

By: orko

orko — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 00:33:02 +0000

You have no idea how hard I worked at getting this to work. I installed Drupal in three different machines and the clean URL option worked only in one of them. The other two machines refused to do it!
I compared every file in these two machines and configured them according to Drupal instructions. Nothing. I was starting to believe that the only difference was that I had installed Apple’s Web Objects.
The main problem is that people who write instructions write the instructions to themselves not thinking on how a non-knowledgeable person thinks (or does not think).

THANK YOU!!

By the way, PHPMYAFMIN is giving me the following alet:
“Your PHP MySQL library version 5.0.24a differs from your MySQL server version 3.23.32. This may cause unpredictable behavior.”

Any ideas??

Cheers

By: Local Web Development With OS X 10.5 (Leopard) | michaelkrol.com

Local Web Development With OS X 10.5 (Leopard) | michaelkrol.com — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:28:59 +0000

[...] the release of Leopard last Friday, it appears the bulk of my previous tutorials are now taken care of out of the box. mod_rewrite is enabled by default, and a decent [...]

By: Luigi

Luigi — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:45:23 +0000

You’re right !
Pleae forgive…I’ve just found your site, and did not notice that nice tutorial.

Perfect !

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:41:16 +0000

Thanks, Luigi! I'm really glad it's helped so many people so far. It's hysterical that you just asked about a tutorial on installing PHP and MySQL because almost two years after I'd written this I stayed up late last night and wrote just what you're asking for (without the wordpress portion). You can read it here.

By: Luigi

Luigi — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:31:01 +0000

Thanks Michael !
It was what I needed this aftrnoon when I installed a local copy of the site on OSX.
Thanks ! It’s perfect.

I think you should also write a brief tutorial about installing PHP, mySQL and Wordpress on OSX, with your clear style.
All the sources on the web are not clear or outdated…

Luigi