Leopard comes with PHP5
November 4, 2007 Posted by Al Castle
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Categories: OSX, Puter Stuff
The latest version of OS X includes PHP version 5.2.4 - this is a major feature that wasn’t on the official list of marketing warm-fuzzies. My attempts at compiling PHP 5 on OSX 10.4 via DarwinPorts while successful, caused odd crashes when accessing an SSL virtualhost, otherwise it ran well.
(As a side note since I did finally manage to start blogging I better keep rolling here.) - In fact there a number of improvements on the server edition that are just awesome. Perhaps my favorite so far is the new Server Tools, which now will run on Mac clients that have upgraded to Leopard. This allows me to remotely manage an Xserver from my desktop without the use of ARD (Apple Remote Desktop) or other VNC like application to access the management tools. Server Admin includes much improved views for displaying and manipulating configurations. Integration is tighter for group management with the ability to assign a wiki, blog, and calendar to a group or department.
I’m still exploring the features, but hope to have some interesting tidbits to blog about soon.
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