Step-by-step Install Guide for Leopard

Requirement

We will need to install the following software dependencies:

Xcode (from the Leopard DVD or Apple Developer connection )
Readline (http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html)

Install PostgreSQL

Download the source from http://www.postgresql.org

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Create the Postgres User

Firstly, you need to find the uid and gid of your new postgres user. The following commands display a sorted list of existing gids and uids. You just need to pick a gid and uid that's not currently being used. Make them match for simplicity's sake. In my case it was 102.

dscl . -list /Groups PrimaryGroupID | awk '{print $2}' | sort -n
dscl . -list /Users UniqueID | awk '{print $2}' | sort -n

Secondly, create the pgsql group by following commands:

sudo dseditgroup -o create -i 102 -r "Web Development Users" web

Thirdly, we'll now open dscl[1] to create the user. Running this program brings up a prompt where you enter your commands.

sudo dscl .
 > create /Users/postgres
 > create /Users/postgres UniqueID 102
 > create /Users/postgres UserShell /bin/bash
 > create /Users/postgres RealName "Postgres Administrator"
 > create /Users/postgres NFSHomeDirectory /usr/local/pgsql
 > create /Users/postgres PrimaryGroupID 102
 > create /Users/postgres Password *
 > quit

Finally, create the pgsql home dir.

sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/pgsql/log
sudo chown -R postgres:web /usr/local/pgsql

Set Environment Variables

We need to make sure the PostgreSQL command-line tools are accessible from any path. To do this you need to edit the global Bash profile:

sudo mate /etc/profile

Add this line:

export PATH=/usr/local/pgsql/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/pgsql/lib

Last, exit Terminal with “exit” command and relaunch it.

Compile and install PostgreSQL

Change to the postgres user and run ./configure to set the compilation options.

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/pgsql
make
su - postgres
make install

Set Default Character Set to UTF-8

PostgreSQL comes defaulted to “SQL ASCII”. To use Argos we should set the default character set to UTF-8. You cannot change the encoding of a database once it is created. The only way is to completely delete it and recreate it:

sudo rm -R /usr/local/pgsql/data

Now recreate the database. Note that you must be the “postgres” user to do this, which we are doing with the “sudo -u postgres” portion below. The -E parameter of initdb tells PostgreS to use UTF-8 – the standard, modern, universal character set:

sudo -u postgres initdb -E utf8 /usr/local/pgsql/data

All new databases, from that point on, will default to UTF-8.

Add PostgreSQL to Autostart PostgreSQL When System Boot

Use a text editor such as textmate to create the PostgreSQL Launchd file:

mate /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.postgresql.PostgreSQL.plist

Copy and paste the following content into the file.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
    <dict>
        <key>Label</key>
        <string>org.postgresql.PostgreSQL</string>
        <key>OnDemand</key>
        <false/>
        <key>ProgramArguments</key>
        <array>
            <string>/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl</string>
            <string>-D</string>
            <string>/usr/local/pgsql/data</string>
            <string>-l</string>
            <string>/usr/local/pgsql/data/server.log</string>
            <string>start</string>
        </array>
        <key>ServiceDescription</key>
        <string>PostgreSQL Server</string>
        <key>UserName</key>
        <string>postgres</string>
        <key>GroupName</key>
        <string>web</string>
    </dict>
</plist>

Next reboot your Mac and check to see if postmaster started up. Or you can try the following commands:

sudo launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.postgresql.PostgreSQL.plist
sudo launchctl start org.postgresql.PostgreSQL

Install Apache

Download the source from http://www.apache.org

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./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache2 \
--enable-dav \
--enable-dav-fs \
--enable-so \
--enable-rewrite=shared \
--enable-speling=shared
make
sudo make install

To start the apache you had installed, you need to edit the file:

/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.httpd.plist

and replace the string:

/usr/sbin/httpd

to point to your own installation of apache.

/usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd

Install PHP

Download the source from http://www.php.net

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./configure \
--with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs \
--prefix=/usr/local/php5 \
--with-config-file-path=/etc/ \
--with-pgsql=/usr/local/pgsql \
--with-curl=/usr/bin \
--with-curlwrappers \
--with-zlib-dir=/usr \
--enable-mbstring \
--with-pdo-pgsql=/usr/local/pgsql \
--enable-debug \
--without-iconv \
--enable-cli

make
sudo make install

You should now have a functioning PHP. Next, we need to move the leopard-bundled PHP out of the way and move the new PHP into its place with this:

sudo mv /usr/bin/php /usr/bin/php-leopard
sudo ln -s /usr/local/php5/bin/php /usr/bin/php

To tell Apache how to handle PHP files. Edit Apache's configuration file:

/usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf

Add these lines:

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

Configure PostgreSQL

Create user for PostgreSQL

We now need to create the database user 'argos'.

sudo -u postgres createuser -D -A -P argos

Enter in a DatabasePassword here, then answer 'N' to the question.

Create database

We now need to use command createdb[2] to create the database 'argos' for the user 'argos'. You'll need to enter the password that you just created.

sudo -u postgres createdb -W -E utf8 -O argos argos

Configure Apache

Create Argos documents root directory.

cd /Library/WebServer/
sudo mkdir argos.domain.com

Enable virtual host

To enable virtual hosting functionality, scroll down to the end of the httpd.conf file and uncomment the following:

# Include Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

You need to make an entry in the httpd-vhosts.conf file like so:

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName      argos.domain.com
        ServerAdmin     yourname@domain.com

        DocumentRoot "/Library/WebServer/argos.domain.com"
    <Directory "/Library/WebServer/argos.domain.com">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog logs/argos.domain.com-error.log
    LogLevel warn

    CustomLog  logs/argos.domain.com-access.log combined
    ServerSignature On
   
    #Allows URLs which contain encoded path separators to be used. 
    AllowEncodedSlashes On
</VirtualHost>

Install Argos

Get Latest Argos Code

Check out the latest version from subversion:

cd /Library/WebServer/tech-ada.utt.fr
sudo svn checkout https://argos-viewpoint.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/argos-viewpoint/trunk .

Press Y to continue.

In the future you will be able to update to the latest version using:

svn update

Directory & File Permissions

Create an empty configure file name config.inc.php or just rename config.sample.inc.php to config.inc.php.

Set correct permissions for all your configuration files. Installation process can not be completed until you set writable permissions for config.inc.php and .htaccess in your Argos root directories.

Run Installation Script

Run the Argos installation script by accessing install/index.php in your favorite web browser.

If you installed Argos in the root directory, you should visit: http://example.com/install/index.php
If you installed Argos in its own subdirectory called myargos, for example, you should visit: http://example.com/myargos/install/index.php