InstallingAboutUsOnOSXFromScratch
This is work in progress. These instructions do not yet work.
See also InstallingAboutUsOnLinux
These are the steps to install a working copy of AboutUs on your local OSX machine. Installing a local copy of AboutUs is painful, expect to struggle and struggle. If you do make it through all of these steps you'll end up with the same development environment that we use as we're working on it.
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Developer Tools
First you must install xCode tools and the X Server from Apple from your leopard installation disk. Otherwise, go to http://developer.apple.com/tools/download/ and download xCode 3.0 (the most recent release at the time this was written).
Links and instructions needed'
MacPorts
Also, install MacPorts from http://www.macports.org/install.php
Use MacPorts to install many of the supporting libraries needed to compile php5.
sudo port install libiconv +universal sudo port install zlib +universal sudo port install libxml2 +universal sudo port install libxslt +universal sudo port install jpeg +universal sudo port install tiff +universal sudo port install libpng +universal sudo port install freetype +universal sudo port install gd2 +universal sudo port install bzip2 +universal sudo port install openssl +universal sudo port install gettext +universal sudo port install gmp +universal
MySQL
http://developer.apple.com/internet/opensource/osdb.html
apache2
See InstallingAboutUsOnOSX/apache
php
See InstallingAboutUsOnOSX/php
phpMyAdmin
http://wiki.cihar.com/pma/Quick_Install
If Apache is not rendering the php, you may need to add the following two lines to your apache2.conf
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php4 .php3 .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
git
Ruby
SSH
You will need an account on nimbus.aboutus.com, you can ask the admin of that system (currently Mike)
Generate a key:
ssh-keygen (with a passphrase)
Add it to your keys for the agent with "ssh-add"
You can verify that it is in there with "ssh-add -l"
Run ssh-agent to get it going. This may not be necessary, as I believe as of OS X 10.5 launchd will start it up when needed.
Add your public key from your local machine (~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub) to your authorized_keys file on nimbus (~/.ssh/authorized_keys). Verify that the permissions of the file are 600 or it will not be used.
Verify that you can login using the key.
Compost
Create the aboutus directory and check out the tools project:
mkdir /www/aboutus cd /www/aboutus git clone nimbus:/opt/git/au-tools
Run the au-install script to get things setup, note that mysql needs to be running for this to complete.
Run the geminstaller to install the needed gems: cd /www/aboutus/compostus geminstaller
Add compostus to the hosts file: sudo vi /etc/hosts add compostus to localhost line
