Get your Local Web Development Environment Up & Running on macOS Sierra With Apples’ new macOS Sierra now in public beta, here is how to get the AMP stack up and running on the new macOS. This tutorial will go through the process on getting Apache, MySQL, PHP (or otherwise known as the ‘AMP’ stack) and phpMyAdmin running on the new mac OS Sierra. This tutorial sets up …
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Installing PEAR on OSX 10.11 El Capitan
PEAR is a popular PHP package manager, it doesn’t come by default on OSX, here is a tutorial how to install PEAR on OSX 10.11 El Capitan and earlier versions of OSX including Yosemite and Mavericks. These commands need to be entered via the command line so crank open your Terminal application. First up Move into …
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Get Apache, MySQL, PHP and phpMyAdmin working on OSX 10.11 El Capitan
Get your Local Web Development Environment Up & Running on OSX 10.11 El Capitan With OSX 10.11 El Capitan, here is how to get the AMP stack up and running. This tutorial will go through the process on getting Apache, MySQL, PHP (or otherwise known as the ‘AMP’ stack) and phpMyAdmin running on the El Capitan OS. This tutorial sets up the AMP stack in more of a …
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How to set up Virtual Hosts in Apache on macos Sierra and OSX
Setting up Virtual Hosts in Apache on on macOS Sierra and OSX is straight forward after you have your local Web Development environment up and running – get your web development up and running first including Apache, PHP and MySQL on macOS following this AMP stack guide here if required. The process of setting up Virtual Hosts is done …
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Get Apache, MySQL, PHP and phpMyAdmin working on OSX 10.10 Yosemite
Get your Local Web Development Environment Up & Running on OSX 10.10 Yosemite With Apples’ new OSX 10.10 Yosemite out of the bag, getting the AMP stack up and running on the new OSX may cause a few bumps on the upgrade from OS X Mavericks 10.9. This tutorial will go through the process on getting Apache, MySQL, PHP (or otherwise known as …
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Connecting SSH with no Passwords from Local to Live Domain
This guide is about setting up a SSH connection without passwords from a local development environment to a live domain site, the requirements are that you have SSH access to the live domain. Setting up SSH folder on a Remote Domain SSH into the domain as the domain owner. By default some hosting providers do not set …
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Git and WordPress workflow for Local Dev on OSX to webserver
This guide shows a Git and WordPress workflow and demonstrates version control using Git from a local development environment on OSX to a live production webserver which is a cPanel server running on CentOS. CentOS cPanel comes with Git and you can do an easy install for OSX. Set up SSH (no passwords) A key requisite for this is …
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Migrating WordPress MultiSite to a New URL
Migrating WordPress MultiSite to a New URL can be done with a combo of 2 excellent free plugins; WP Migrate DB and BackWPup the former deals with the database and the latter deals with the files. The key thing when updating the WordPress database to reflect a new hosting URL is making sure any data serialization stays intact, …
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