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Installing MySQL on macos Maverick (10.9) (see the section below on installing MySQL on macos Sierra). $ tail /var/log/apache2/error_log Install MySQLīefore downloading MySQL, make sure you do not already have it installed under: $ ls /user/local/mysql Note!! I could not get the DMG MySQL package (v 5.7) downloaded from the mysql website to work on macos Sierra, and thus used Homebrew to install it instead. If this is not the case, check the Appace Error log: Print "Content-type: text/html charset=iso-8859-1\n\n" Īnd open it in your web browser This should display a page with the words CGI Test Page on it. $ cat > /Library/Webserver/CGI-Executables/ To test this, create a perl script called in the /Library/WebServer/CGI_Executables folder (you can verify this in your Apache configuration file: /etc/apache2/nf/ by grepping CGI_Executables).

Your Apache server should already be configured to execute CGI scripts from the directory /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables. # The Appace error log:/var/log/apache2/error_log Perl CGI

# The Apache configuration file: /etc/apache/nf Verify that it works by accessing Note! Important files: It may already be running, and if so, you will get the following message: : Already loaded Do the following to verify this: Apacheįrom the terminal, start the Apache server using apachectl: $ apachectl start Open the Terminal and switch to the root user to avoid permission issues: $ sudo su - Apache and CGIĪpache should be installed by default on your system and configured to execute CGI scripts. You will have to be a root user to execute most of the commands, so start by switching to root user:

You also need to install the Perl DBD::mysql module. The following instructions were tested on macos X version Maverick (10.9.5) and High Sierra (10.13.2) and sections of it are based on this post by Jason McCreary.Īpache and Perl come packaged with OS X, so in order to create a local web server, all you need to do is configure Apache and install MySQL.