Category Archives: osx
GD imagettftext broken on Leopard/mac ports
Spent the better part of the morning battling PHP/GD. I needed to overlay text on an image, something I can recall doing in the past without issue. Not this morning though. Everytime the code got to ‘imagettftext’ it would result in a WSOD. After much troubleshooting and Google’ng I found [...]
Running PHP5 fast cgi with lighttpd on OS X
Lighttpd is a lightweight (lighter than Apache) http server. It has been gaining more an more press lately (The Ruby crowd uses it often for Rails).You can run PHP on lighttpd as a CGI (Fast CGI prefferably). You can even keep your existing Apache/PHP install and run Lighttpd/PHP side by side (on another port)
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