Using Eclipse for php development on OSX
Saturday, September 4th, 2010
I am starting to hate Visual Studio more and more as it gets slower and slower so it was about time I set up a new dev environment on my Mac so I didn’t need to start a VM to run the only app I now ever use on Windows.
Enter Eclipse which I use for Java development for a payment system on AS400 and a bit of Android stuff but never really for PHP
I downloaded the latest version with PHP support which is now 64bit and was ready to go. But not so fast. Having created a test site in the default location (/Users/Brian/Documents/workspace) I ran the site up in the local window. Bum 404 not found.
Ok this was easy to solve. Go to /etc/apache/httpd.conf and add an alias
1 | Alias /myBMI /Users/Brian/Documents/workspace/myBMI |
and a directory listing
1 2 3 4 5 6 | <Directory "/Users/Brian/Documents/workspace/myBMI"> Options All MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> |
then save and restart Apache sudo /usr/sbin/apachectl restart
Great it finds the page but I now get a permission denied 403. This one took a little longer and it is a bit of a fudge. Now this is a development machine so I don’t really need to worry about security as it will never be on the web. While in httpd.conf look for User and you will see it is set to _www. Now OSX doesn’t make it easy to change permissions and what I really should have done is given _www permissions to my workspace folder but it was quicker to just change the user to me.
1 2 | User Brian Group _www |
Save and restart Apache and we are go for PHP development. Thanks to Suburbia for the pointers.
