A little under a year ago I wrote a walkthrough: Set up a Self Signed Certificate on macOS's Built in Apache.
Recently a new tool showed up called mkcert has come and made life way easier.
It's a wonderful tool that instead of building Self-Signed Certificates, sets your local machine up with a ce…
While trying to compile PHP extensions after installing macOS Mojave, I was butting up against a ton of missing header file errors including php.h and zlib.
After several hours of beating my head against my desk and Googling/Stack Overflowing I found the solution.
Ends up you just need to force re…
I recently purchased a .app domain for a side project; .app domains are interesting as they require SSL at all times.
I like to set up my dev environments as subdomains of my actual domain, such as local.donatstudios.com. It makes working with CORS and cookies a lot simpler for applications with A…
Should you run into errors related to missing php.h or other .h files, you should check out my post on fixing missing headers on macOS Mojave.
These directions are for working with the native installation of PHP. Your results may vary if you are using a brew, MAMP or otherwise installed version of…
Every time I would upgrade OS X it took probably 45 minutes of fiddling with my Apache configuration to get it working properly. I'm writing this article in the hopes of saving myself and others some time.
The Setup
For the following examples, {username} represents your username.
Firstly, if you…
Please Note
This tutorial only covers the default PHP installation that ships with Mac OS X / macOS. If you have installed a new installation this does not cover you.
For those using brew, you can simply brew install the appropriate brew formula for the extension.
These directions are verified t…
If you are running OS X El Capitan or newer you will need to disable System Integrity Protection to modify system files and directories.
To disable System Integrity Protection, boot into recovery mode by restarting and then holding ⌘R as you hear the startup chime. Then start the Terminal from the…
When I switched from an older MacBook Pro to a MacBook Air the backup from my old MacBook Pro was corrupted and unmountable. However, I had preserved a backup of my Photo Booth Photos and wanted the Photo Booth application to recognize them. This is just a matter of creating a Recents.plist, an orde…
