Mac OS X client HOWTO

Tuesday 29 March 2005 11:50:35 pm

For those who want to install and run EZ Publish on Mac OS X, a quick and dirty HOWTO:

Tested on Mac OS X 10.3.8 with PostgreSQL 8.0

- download the ezpublish-3.5.1.tar.bz2 (or newest version)
- StuffIt Expander will expand it
- In goal to speed up by a factor four, you should change the DocumentRoot in /etc/httpd/httpd.conf to a new folder at the root (/www for example)
In fact, i follow the tip from this forum and it works great :)
- and :
sudo mkdir /www
sudo cp -R ezpublish-3.5.1/* /www
sudo chown -R www:www /www

- Download all the required packages from entropy.ch
At least, PHP and (pgsql or mysql), there is a ImageMagick package but i have not test it yet.
For pgsql, my HOWTO in the entropy.ch forum solve the "Function digest(character varying)" problem
- Follow all setup instructions from entropy.ch for your selected packages
- Test all of them
- If all ok, go to http://127.0.0.1/index.php and create the demo
- Enjoy !

I have made a SQL file that cleans the database in case of trouble during installation or reinstallation.

Thursday 31 March 2005 12:50:08 am

OK
Of course, it will take some times before it is ready but it is now a work in progress :)

Thursday 31 March 2005 11:15:17 pm

Where i found the tip:
http://ez.no/community/forum/install_configuration/help_how_to_improve_performance_ez_slow

Darwin, the lowest level of Mac OS X is based on a BSD distribution (i cannot remenber which one).

So, when the ez base folder was moved from /Library/WebServer/Documents/ez to /www, the speed increased by a factor four

If you use multisites, it may speed up but less, of course.

Uninstall Virex on my PowerBook cut by half the server treatement time too and now ez is quite fast :)

Sunday 08 May 2005 11:41:53 am

Correction : i have not enough time to work on a clean HOWTO before June... :(