For me, in my fresh Snow Leopard install, PHP5 wasn’t enabled by default. Here is what I had to do to get it working:
In the /etc/apache2/httpd.conf file, underneath all the “LoadModule” commands I added:
LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so
Then in terminal I ran the command:
sudo apachectl -k restart
And PHP5 was working for me. Feel free to post any questions in the comments. Thanks!
I do Ruby on Rails development full time at the moment. With Rails, I usually deploy my applications to the web server with a program called Capistrano. Its a Ruby Gem. A ruby gem is ruby program installed by the “gems package manager.” It’s similar to yum or apt if you have ever install software on Linux. Capistrano lets you create a recipe that specifies how to deploy your application to the server (or servers). Continue