[dev] Web accessible git folder on OS X

[Luis Felipe Marzagao]

Em 30/07/2012 23:12, Michael J Rubinsky escreveu:
>
> Quoting Luis Felipe Marzagao <lfbm.andamentos at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hello:
>>
>> Probably a non-horde question, but I would like to hear from others 
>> if possible.
>>
>> Is it just me or is it extremely difficult to run a horde web 
>> accessible git tree in Mac OS X?
>
> I do all/most of my development on my MBP. It's running a 
> lighttpd/php-fastcgi stack installed via MacPorts. Had no specific 
> issues with PEAR.
>
>
Never tried macports. Thanks for the tip.
>> After several tries with MAMP and having a lot of trouble with pear, 
>> I decided to use native php+pear that comes with OS X (snow leopard).
>>
>> After hours configuring it all and being able to successfully run web 
>> apps such as phpMyAdmin, I followed instructions from here 
>> (http://www.horde.org/development/git#making-development-repos-web-accessible) 
>> and horde test.php page gave an error msg about not finding 
>> textdomain() function in Registry.php.
>
>> God! In Ubuntu, CentOS and alikes its so easy to get it working.
>>
>> What am I missing? Why is it so hard in OS X? Any tips or advices?
>
> The only thing I can say that ever gave me a problem (other than the 
> annoying case insensitive file system) was that you have to be certain 
> to use the *real* file paths when configuring the registry.conf file. 
> E.g., /var and /tmp are actually a symlink to /private/var and 
> /private/tmp on OS X's filesystem. Be sure to use the /private paths.
Hum, didn´t know that. Thanks a lot for the advices! I hope I can get it 
all working now!

Luis Felipe