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1. Making own AMP stack
with Homebrew on a
Mac
Raimonds Kalniņš
Wunderkraut Latvia

2. AMP?
- Historically a bundle of Apache, Mysql
and PHP
- Today refers to various combos of web
server components
- LAMP: Linux + AMP

3. - There are number of options to set up
AMP on a Mac
- But there is also lack of
- choice / customisation
- performance
What is the problem?

4. Options to set up AMP
- Built-in Apache and PHP
- AMP software bundles (MAMP, XAMPP)
- Virtualisation software
- Package manager (Homebrew)

5. Built-in Apache and PHP
- Good
- It’s there already on the system
- Only DB server needs to be added
- Bad
- Hardly customisable
- Can’t do without sudoing
- Can’t start fresh if things go wrong

6. Built-in Apache and PHP
You don’t want to sing this song at the end of the day
if built-in binaries/config files become corrupted.

7. AMP software bundles
- Good
- Easy to set up
- Easy to reinstall / remove
- Bad
- Partly customisable
- Lots of (usually) unwanted stuff

8. Virtualisation software
- Good
- Fully customisable
- Easy to reinstall / remove
- Bad
- Performance overhead

9. Package manager
- Good
- Fully customisable
- Easy to reinstall / remove
- Full speed
- Bad
- Outdated packages
- Package manager prone to major
internal changes

10. Homebrew lingo
Formula A package definition file
Tap A repository of Formulae
More information can be found on Homebrew project website.

11. Homebrew requirements
- OS X 10.6 (10.7 is recommended)
- Intel CPU is recommended
- Command line tools for Xcode*
* Install with xcode-select --install

12. The Plan - HAMP
- Install Homebrew
- Install Apache 2.4
- Install MariaDB 10
- Install PHP 5.6
- Install Drush 7

13. HAMP requirements
Before setting up HAMP, these taps need
to be added:
- brew tap homebrew/apache
- brew tap homebrew/homebrew-php

14. Installing the software
Run
- brew install http24
- brew install mariadb
- brew install php56
- brew install drush

15. Configure the software
Make changes to httpd.conf:
- ServerName localhost:8080
- AllowOverride All
- LoadModule php5_module [..]/libphp5.so
- LoadModule rewrite_module [..]/
mod_rewrite.so
- DirectoryIndex index.php
- AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
Secure MariaDB:
- mysql_secure_installation

16. Demo