Symphony.

Installing Hiawatha Webserver on Mac OS X and running Symphony CMS

SCREENCASTS

• Part One: Installing Hiawatha Web Server and running Symphony CMS on Mac OS X (5 min) -- watch
• Part Two: Installing Hiawatha Web Server and running Symphony CMS on Mac OS X (5 min) -- watch
• Part Three: Installing Hiawatha Web Server and running Symphony CMS on Mac OS X (4 min 56 seconds) -- watch

SCREENCAST NOTES:

PREREQUISITES

• Have Git installed on your machine
• Have PHP and MySQL installed on your machine. I installed mine with Homebrew
• Homebrew MySQL, http://www.andrewsavory.com/blog/2011/2144
• Homebrew PHP, https://github.com/josegonzalez/homebrew-php
  • Follow Jose Gonzalez's included instructions and the portion when you run brew install, run it with the following flags, brew install php54 --with-mysql --with-fpm and then after installing you can run brew info php54 and look for instructions, "If you have installed the formula with --with-fpm"
• Download Sequel Pro for Mac OS X (Open Source GUI for MySQL), http://www.sequelpro.com

1) Download Hiawatha Mac OS X package

http://www.hiawatha-webserver.org/download

2) Install Hiawatha Web Server and check to see if it is running

• It installs into /usr/local/etc/hiawatha
• Open your browser and browse to http://localhost or http://127.0.0.1

3) Setup Hiawatha configuration to run a Symphony CMS site

• The hiawatha.conf file is found in /usr/local/etc/hiawatha directory

4) Setup database for Symphony

• Open Sequel Pro and add a new database.

5) Download and install Symphony

• Go to Symphony's Github repository, https://github.com/symphonycms/symphony-2 and follow the instructions in the README… look for Installing Symphony via Git and follow those instructions.

6) Check if Symphony is running

• Go to http://hiawatha.dev and http://hiawatha.dev/symphony

7) Rejoice

Interesting Brian, thanks for sharing!