Tutorial

Still taking on latest turorials, today we will be looking at installing PostgreSQL Server using MacPorts.

This is a little tutorial on customizing the previous MySQL install found here.

I prefer to have my DB living inside /Users directory, instead of /var or /opt. That's what we are going to achive. The goal is to make MySQL DBs drop here /Users/DB/mysql.

Since we installed MacPorts, let's put it to good use and install Apache2 and PHP5 to replace versions bundled with OS X.

To make PHP database aware and more useful, we will be installing Mysql, PostgreSQL, SQLite and PEAR as extensions, along with many others built by default by MacPorts.

Se houver algém interessado, posso traduzir para Português!

MacPorts is a great project that brings a bunch open source application to the Mac world. It works like the ports system in FreeBSD, OpenBSD or NetBSD, <insert other flavors here>.

It takes care of all the work,