eeking a satisfactory solution to create a local web server for programming in macOS with PHP and MySQL, I was disappointed that the turnkey solutions were far from equaling the WAMP that may exist on Windows.

But I forgot macOS is a Unix system, and unlike Windows, it’s perfectly possible to create a customized local server with some packages.

We will see how to install Nginx, PHP-FPM and MariaDB (MySQL) on macOS El Capitan thanks to Homebrew package manager.

Homebrew

HomeBrew is a package manager for macOS, that allows to easily install various Unix applications.

To install, simply execute the command shown on the official website.

If you do not already have them, macOS will prompt you to first install Xcode Command Line Tools.

After installation, the following command, if necessary, will tell you how to complete the installation:

brew doctor

Then updates all packages with:

brew update

brew upgrade

Nginx

Although Apache is natively included with macOS, we propose here to install Nginx, particularly lightweight and easily configurable. Its installation is done with:

brew install nginx

The following will automatically launch Nginx at startup:

brew services start nginx

We want to store our web site in the folder of our choice, and access to the URL http://localhost/.

To do this, edit the configuration file:

nano /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf

To begin, we edit the line beginning with Nginx #user to give permission to access our files, to modify the following line, where <user> is your username:

user <user> staff;

To use port 80, changing the line beginning with listen in :

listen 80;

Finally, it indicates the folder where you want to store your sites through the variable root :

root <chemin/vers/votre/site>;

We can now start Nginx:

sudo nginx

PHP

To use PHP with Nginx we will use PHP-FPM. To install PHP 7.0, launch the following commands:

Setup the homebrew taps which has dependencies we need:

brew tap homebrew/dupes

brew tap homebrew/versions

brew tap homebrew/homebrew-php

Then we install :

brew install php70

Once installed, use the following commands to run only PHP-FPM on startup:

mkdir -p ~/Library/LaunchAgents

cp /usr/local/opt/php70/homebrew.mxcl.php70.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/

launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.php70.plist

One can ensure that the service runs well watching if the following command produces a result:

lsof -Pni4 | grep LISTEN | grep php

Finally, re-edit the configuration file:

nano /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf

We modify the line starting with index by:

index index.php;

Finally, add in the section server the following lines to run PHP for all files with the extension .php:

location ~ \.php {

    fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+?\.php)(/.*)$;

    if (!-f $document_root$fastcgi_script_name) {

        return 404;

    }

    fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;

    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;

    include fastcgi_params;

}

Restart Nginx to activate the changes:

sudo nginx -s reload

MySQL

Rather than installing the version of MySQL by Oracle achieved, we will install the free MariaDB fork with the following commands:

brew install mariadb

The following lines are used to start the server at startup:

brew services start mariadb

Finally, complete the installation by choosing a root password for MySQL:

mysql_secure_installation

Here is the perfect MAMP installation !

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