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Read etresofts article at https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3083. The suggested edit of username.conf for Perl did not work. Resulted in "cannot connect to localhost" error. Did not create a new entry in /var/log/apache2/errorlog. The non-Perl edit works ok. Thanks.
MacBook, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), Adobe CS5 mysql wkbch 5.2.45
What is the advantage of this approach (mentioned above) vs. using MAMP???
What does your Perl script look like?
It works fine for me:
leroydouglas wrote:
What is the advantage of this approach (mentioned above) vs. using MAMP???
Primarily that there are people who will help just becaues it is interesting. MAMP isn't interesting. You can install it and it will run fine (but not as often as people suggest) but you won't learn a thing about setting up Apache, PHP, and MySQL. Then, when you want to deploy on some shared hosting site, or worse - in an enterprise IT environment, you are pretty much at the mercy of IT.
Plus, I find it horribly inelegant to install duplicate copies of software that is already on the machine.
Thanks etresoft for your reply !
I mean I can't open anything at localhost when I use the Perl version of the config file. I didn't have a Perl script to run; I just figured might as well configure the server to be Perl capable.
I've faced the same issue and solved it thanks to http://osxdaily.com/2012/09/10/enable-php-apache-mac-os-x/. etresofts's article only says how to enable PHP in httpd.conf, but for Perl you have to do exactly the same: uncomment (remove '#') line that says LoadModule perl_module libexec/apache2/mod_perl.so (should be just above the PHP one). After that localhost and localhost/~username show the websites.
Ok, I tried again and no problem. Don't know what changed. Maybe I made a typo earlier.
Setting up a local web server on Lion and Mountain Lion
