Help! I've been using Opeoffice for years on my MacBook Pro. I've just updated my Os to Catalina (10.15.2) and now none of my hundreds of Openoffice files will open. The logo jumps in the dock, and when I tab through the apps it shows it as open, but I get no menus and the file I've double-clicked refuses to open in a window. I'm currently writing my 6th novel and I'm 15,000 word in, and now I can't open the files. Plus I use the spreadsheets to create invoices, and they too aren't now accessible. I'm really stressed!

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I was using for several years MAMP, Fywheel, as well as package managers like brew, and all work pretty well, but why not using the preinstalled Apache and PHP that is shipped in almost all macOS?

In this tutorial, I will show you how to setup/install Apache, PHP, and MySQL on macOS Catalina.

Open the Terminal app and switch to the root user so you can run the commands in this post without any permission issues:

Enable Apache on macOS

Check if works by accessing:
http://localhost

Enable PHP for Apache

First, let’s make a backup of the default Apache configuration

Edit the Apache configuration

Uncomment the following line

Restart Apache:

You can verify PHP is enabled by creating a phpinfo() page in your DocumentRoot.

The default DocumentRoot for macOS Catalina is /Library/WebServer/Documents. In order to verify this, we run the command below to find out our Apache configuration.

Create the phpinfo() page in your DocumentRoot:

Verify PHP by accessing http://localhost/phpinfo.php

Customizing PHP settings (php.ini)

MacOS’ PHP uses a default php.ini file based on /private/etc/php.ini.default.
To customize your PHP environment, if a php.ini file doesn’t already exist at /private/etc/php.ini, copy the default template to create a main php.ini file:

Make any changes you wish to php.ini and restart apache to reload all configuration files:

If you were to run phpinfo() in a PHP file from the web server, you should now see that the Loaded Configuration File property now has the value /etc/php.ini.

A very common tweak to the default PHP configuration is to allow larger file upload sizes. The post_max_size and upload_max_filesize properties are only a few megs by default. These limits can be raised as you see fit.

Many developers also tweak the max_execution_time, max_input_time, and memory_limit settings depending on their project.

Always remember to restart apache after making changes to your PHP configuration.

Install MySQL on macOS Catalina

Download and install the latest MySQL version for your macOS.

Setup
Open a new terminal and run the code below this will update the mysql path on your ~/.profile

Macos Catalina Apache

Please run mysql_secure_installation to make your MySQL secured

Recommended setup:
Strong Password? Yes
Change the root password? Yes
Remove anonymous users? yes
Disallow root login remotely? Yes
Remove test database? Yes
Reload privileges tables now? Yes

We can set a command shortcut for mysql:

Now, to access mysql console, we can run below short command:

Useful mysql commands

Connect PHP and MySQL

Create symlink to ensure PHP and MySQL can communicate each other.

Edited my Apache Configuration:

Uncommented the following lines

Virtual Hosts

Edit the Apache configuration file:

Add the below line after this included #Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

Create the apache2 vhosts directory.

Create the default virtual host configuration file.

Add the following configuration:

The default virtual host was created for when the Apache web server can’t find a virtual host, it will use this configuration. By prefixing this file with an underscore, Apache will include it first.

Now we can create our first virtual host. The example below contains the virtual host configuration for my test site.

Create the virtual host configuration file:

Add the following configuration:

This VirtualHost configuration allows me to access my site from http://nuno-test.test for local development.

The final step is to restart Apache:

Test our apache configuration/strong>

Start, Stop, Restart and test Apache server config

I know it is a little bit daunting but I promise that we’ll never come back to this nasty lengthy configuration file again. Four simple commands are everything that we need to remember from now on. Start, stop, restart and configuration test.

Mapping our vhosts on macOS hosts file

Add your virtual host to the bottom of the file. It should match the value you used for the ServerName configuration.

Flush macOS DNS cache:

Permissions

Stop Apache Mac Catalina

You may receive 403 Forbidden when you visit your local site. This is likely a permissions issue. Simply put, the Apache user (_www) group (_www) needs to have access to read, and sometimes write, to your web directory.

Conclusion

By using the macOS preinstalled Apache and PHP we can avoid installing extra software on our macOS which sometimes could lead us to conflicts/errors/miss configuration on our Mac Operating system.

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