Welcome to BootPress

The following instructions are what it finally took for me to get localhost working on my machine (a late 2008 MacBook Air with Snow Leopard v.10.6.8), and should be good for all operating systems up to (but not including) Yosemite. If you are using (or upgrading) to Yosemite, then make the changes as outlined at Apple Discussions. I followed their tutorial almost to a "T", but their setup won't allow for sessions, .htaccess files, and php mkdir() functionality, so that is why I am giving you the whole kit and caboodle here. Following these instructions will have your Mac OS X ready to install BootPress.

1. Open up the Terminal and type:

   sudo nano /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

   Enter your password and uncomment:

   #LoadModule php5_module        libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

   To:

   LoadModule php5_module        libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

   In order to allow mkdir() permissions, change:

   User _www

   To:

   User <username>

   Change the following lines:

   DocumentRoot "/Library/WebServer/Documents"
   <Directory "/Library/Webserver/Documents">
   AllowOverride None

   To:

   DocumentRoot "/Users/<username>/Sites/www"
   <Directory "/Users/<username>/Sites/www">
   AllowOverride All

   There should be two (2) AllowOverride lines to fix. This is to enable .htaccess files.

   To save push 'Control-X', then 'Y', and 'Enter'.

2. Type the command:

   sudo nano /etc/apache2/users/<username>.conf

   And enter the following:

   <Directory "/Users/<username>/Sites/">
     Options Indexes MultiViews
     AllowOverride All
     Order allow,deny
     Allow from localhost
   </Directory>

   Save as above.

3. For sessions to work properly type:

   sudo nano /etc/php.ini

   Uncomment:

   ;session.save_path = "/tmp"

   To:

   session.save_path = "/tmp"

   Save as before.

4. To get apache going with our new changes type:

   sudo apachectl start

   Or:

   sudo apachectl restart

   To ensure that all is well type:

   apachectl -S

   Be sure to fix any problems that come up.

   To check on your installation of php type:

   php -i

   This will give you the same information as phpinfo().

5. Create a "www" folder in the "Sites" directory, and place an index.html file in it.

6. Go to http://localhost/ and you should see that "It Works!", or whatever your index.html file displays. You may now proceed with installing BootPress.