Setting Up Django With Mod_WSGI On Snow Leopard

As you’ve probably noticed, I like to compile things. Package management, although useful, just really doesn’t do it for me. Recently, I had to set up a customized install of PHP on CentOS and was forced to use RPM. Well, the experience was funky to say the least. The basic php install had all compile-ins [...]

Installing Tomcat 6.0.x Behind Apache 2.2.x

Installing Tomcat is relatively easy as most of the work has already been done for you. These instructions pertain to OS 10.5.6 and will probably work for OS 10.5.x and 10.4.x. Going before 10.4 will probably required you to install a newer JDK. I’m going to run through this as root again. Any time you [...]

Compiling 64-bit Apache/PHP on Mac OS X 10.5.6

Update: The below installation still works on Snow Leopard with PHP 5.3. You can use the latest and greatest of each library/project below and it will still work. However, there is one gotcha. There is a bug somewhere (PHP blames Apple and vice versa) when compiling PHP. To get around this, run the following on [...]