I’ve finally had my work laptop upgraded to Leopard!!! 
As such, I’ve just spent the last couple of days getting things all set-up nicely so that I can get on with my work. Most of the work that I do is web development orientated, and mainly using Perl and Catalyst, so an install of Apache and mod_perl is needed.
OS X does come with a complete install of Apache (even with mod_perl!) out of the box and ready to go (info on using this set-up can be found here), but I’m also working on another project that may involve the use of Jaxer, and this requires a newer build of Apache than the one shipped with Leopard. 
Thankfully building these tools isn’t too complicated, here’s a quick dump of my notes on getting this done. Note, I’m installing them into /usr/local so that I don’t mess with any of the OS X internals that I shouldn’t be touching - this is completely removable.
First, make a work area for building:
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/src
sudo chgrp admin /usr/local/src
sudo chmod -R 775 /usr/local/src
cd /usr/local/src
Apache
curl -O http://apache.mirror.infiniteconflict.com/httpd/httpd-2.2.11.tar.gz
tar zxvf httpd-2.2.11.tar.gz
cd httpd-2.2.11
Now here’s the big one - the Apache configuration. This compiles a heap of modules I probably don’t need, but it’s nice to have them there in case I do ever need them…
CFLAGS="-O3" CXXFLAGS="-O3" \
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache2 \
--enable-autoindex \
--enable-cache \
--enable-cgi \
--enable-deflate \
--enable-dir \
--enable-disk_cache \
--enable-fastcgi \
--enable-file_cache \
--enable-headers \
--enable-include \
--enable-info \
--enable-log_config \
--enable-log_forensic \
--enable-logio \
--enable-mem_cache \
--enable-mime \
--enable-mime_magic \
--enable-negotiation \
--enable-perl \
--enable-proxy \
--enable-proxy-balancer \
--enable-proxy-http \
--enable-rewrite \
--enable-speling \
--enable-status \
--enable-suexec \
--enable-userdir \
--enable-usertrack \
--enable-version \
--enable-vhost_alias \
--enable-so \
--enable-mods-shared=all
Then the standard make and install:
make
make test
sudo make install
Now to add some configuration so that Apache starts on system boot, first we need to create a startup script:
cd /System/Library/StartupItems/
sudo mkdir Apache
cd Apache
sudo touch Apache
sudo chmod a+x Apache
mate Apache
Paste this content into the file:
#!/bin/sh
##
# Apache HTTP Server
##
. /etc/rc.common
StartService () {
ConsoleMessage "Starting Apache web server"
/usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl start
}
StopService () {
ConsoleMessage "Stopping Apache web server"
/usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl stop
}
RestartService () {
ConsoleMessage "Restarting Apache web server"
/usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl restart
}
RunService "$1"Then a configuration file:
sudo touch StartupParameters.plist
mate StartupParameters.plist
Paste this content into the file:
{
Description = "Apache web server";
Provides = ("Web Server");
Requires = ("DirectoryServices");
Uses = ("Disks","Network Time");
OrderPreference = "None";
}Then reboot and open up http://localhost to make sure things have worked.
Mod Perl
This is a lot more straight forward:
cd /usr/local/src
curl -O http://perl.apache.org/dist/mod_perl-2.0-current.tar.gz
tar zxvf mod_perl-2.0-current.tar.gz
cd mod_perl-2.0.4
perl Makefile.PL MP_AP_PREFIX=/usr/local/apache2
make
make test
sudo make install
Now all you have to do is add the following line to your Apache httpd.conf (/usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf) with all of the LoadModule entries:
LoadModule perl_module modules/mod_perl.so
All done!
So here’s a brief overview of how I got PostgreSQL set-up nicely on Mac OS 10.5…
On the second computer all you need to do to get the ball rolling is to close down Things, open up a terminal and type the following commands:
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