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Startup Script for Apache Tomcat on Snow Leopard HOWTO

Marko Tomic — Thu, 20 May 2010 17:01:44 +0100

I have just set up Apache Tomcat startup script on Snow Leopard and I thought I'd blog about it while it's still fresh in my head. Assuming you have installed Tomcat in /usr/local/tomcat directory, you can do the following to start Tomcat on system startup.1. Create your startup script:{xtypo_code}sudo nano /usr/local/tomcat/bin/tomcat{/xtypo_code}{xtypo_code}#!/bin/sh
# Tomcat Startup Script

CATALINA_HOME=/usr/local/tomcat; export CATALINA_HOME

JAVA_HOME=/Library/Read More...

Zen Cart Friendly URLs

Marko Tomic — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 05:35:56 +0100

I've been exploring Zen Cart shopping cart for a long time and one thing that, I thought, needed improvement was the support for friendly URLs. Ultimate SEO URLs break my site and I needed another solution. I found this little beauty called Simple SEO URL and it works beautifully. It's a little tricky to set up, but it's worth the effort. Installation process will take you about 15-20 minutes.

{xtypo_warning}I use Zen Cart 1.3.8a and SSU 3.8.3. If you have different veRead More...

MAMP vs Entropy PHP on OS X

Marko Tomic — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:15:36 +0100

Following my post on Snow Leopard Gotchas, I discovered another problem you might run into. SL comes with currently the latest version of PHP 5.3.0. However, not all PHP projects will play nice on v5.3.0. What you could do is:

1. build and configure an older version of PHP from source - e.g. 5.2.11
2. Install Entropy PHP (note: this will modify your SL Apache config files).
3. Or just be lazy and install MAMP (Macintosh, Apache, MySQL, PHP) in a few seconds.

I choRead More...

Snow Leopard Gotchas

Marko Tomic — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:29:48 +0100

I recently upgraded to Snow Leopard from 10.5 and everything went relatively smoothly. I was particularly pleased to see extra 13GB of hard drive space.

However, I noticed a couple of things that I wasn't so pleased about:

Apache unable to start
PHP disabled
MySQL unable to start

I've already walked a couple of people through this, so if you run into the same problem you can try the following:

1. For some reason Snow Leopard modified the following file: