Newbie - I have an iMac G5 10.4.11 - How do I get zencart working?

I've just purchased the book and realised it won't help with installation on a Mac - has anyone installed zencart on my version of Mac? If so I'd love to know how? i am familiar in using Dreamweaver if that helps.

Thank you in advance :smile:

The book will be fine if you choose to use MAMP instead. The concepts are largely the same. You might check out the book's website for more information. There is also a discussion about the book and MAMP elsewhere on the forums, which might prove useful to you.

If you know how to set up your own Apache+PHP+MySQL on your Mac, you can still use most of the instructions in the book to guide you.

Or, you could run it directly on a real website. Nothing says you "have to" run it on your own computer. A real webserver will let you see how it'll really work when you go live.

Thank you DrByte for your reply, have downloaded MAMP all seems ok. However I am having major issues :frusty: in how to set up my own Apache+PHP+MySQL on my Mac :no: and where Zencart come into all this.

I would really appreciate it if I could have step by step instructions for a Mac to get it up and going and then I can follow the book - I hope :blink:

Many thanks in advance :smile:

If I had a Mac I'd be happy to help.

Guess which model MacBook I'd like to have for Christmas? :D

Apache and PHP come with OSX, I forget whether mysql does, but it's not so hard to install and configure.

You'd be better off concentrating on those before you start trying to install zen. It won't work without them! You'll also maybe want to install something like phpmyadmin to tweak your database.

Question is, what would you say your level of expertise is? A step-by-step is OK until something goes wrong, and in my humble experience, it normally does. If you're confident with a bit of troubleshooting, no problem, but if not I'd look seriously at the suggestion of having a host do it.

I run 4 websites on my Mac, it's a very solid and capable webserver. Other than moving house, haven't had an outage for probably 4 years.

Apache and php should be installed, however you may need to enable php with apache.

First start the Terminal program (use spotlight to find it, it is in /Applications/Utilities).

In the command line find out if you have apache and php ($ is the command prompt in this example).

$ httpd -version
$ php -version

Goto:

http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/

and follow the instructions based on the version(s) you are running.

You fill also find a link to MySql http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html#macosx-dmg

Download the "package" (not the tar version) for your cpu type PowerPC or Intel.

The MySql package has a nice control panel for turning it on and off.

Make sure you read about resetting your default password for MySql:

$ /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqladmin -u root password your_new_password_here

I am sure this is all cryptic... there are higher level packages. Do a google search for "installing php mysql on mac os x" or somesuch.

cheers

This is for an all-in-one Apache, PHP, MySQL, phpMyAdmin install:

http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-macosx.html

You'll have to start it using the Terminal window. I have not found a way of installing it as a "service" which begins on start up, as you can do on a PC.

Vger