I found a good walkthrough the easy way at this page
I’m replicating the text here in case it’s gets lost but the credit goes to Matthew Holt
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What follows is the text taken from Mathew’s blog:
Install Homebrew ∞
In case you haven’t already, install Homebrew by following the instructions at the bottom of this page.
Homebrew’s most legit PHP “tap” (package source) is by Jose Gonzalez. Make sure to install it:
$ brew tap josegonzalez/homebrew-php
We also need a tap for a PHP 5.4 dependency, zlib:
$ brew tap homebrew/dupes
Install MySQL ∞
$ brew install mysql
It’ll chew on that for a few minutes, then we need to get it to run as our user account:
$ unset TMPDIR
$ mysql_install_db --verbose --user=`whoami` --basedir="$(brew --prefix mysql)" --datadir=/usr/local/var/mysql --tmpdir=/tmp
I got a “Warning” during this operation, and while I don’t think it’s critical, I did this and things have seemed to work fine… if you got a warning during the last step, then you could do this:
$ sudo mv /usr/local/opt/mysql/my-new.cnf /usr/local/opt/mysql/my.cnf
Then, to launch MySQL at startup:
$ cp `brew --prefix mysql`/homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/
$ launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist
Done! Next: the web server.
Install nginx ∞
$ brew install nginx
Let that stew, then run these commands to have nginx run as root at startup (so we can listen on port 80, the default, instead of 8080 which is less convenient for development):
$ sudo cp `brew --prefix nginx`/homebrew.mxcl.nginx.plist /Library/LaunchDaemons/
$ sudo sed -i -e 's/`whoami`/root/g' `brew --prefix nginx`/homebrew.mxcl.nginx.plist
(Okay, to be honest, this didn’t work for me to load nginx right away on start; I had to edit the /Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.nginx.plist file and remove the two lines that specify the UserName key and value (one line specifies the key, the other the value). Then it worked.)
Then create a log file… this allows us to view server logs in the Mac Console, which is really convenient, but isn’t required:
$ sudo mkdir /var/log/nginx/
(Don’t forget to tell nginx to put the log file there in nginx.conf: error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;)
Done! Next up: PHP.
Install PHP ∞
$ brew install --without-apache --with-fpm --with-mysql php54
Make sure to change “php54” to whatever version you want. At time of writing, PHP 5.4 is the latest stable, but PHP 5.5 is in alpha. I assume 5.5 would be php55, etc. Be sure to adjust any following commands with the proper version number.
Quick note: Yes, OS X does come with PHP pre-installed. But we don’t want to use that. We need an install we can use with nginx and FastCGI Process Manager (fpm). Plus, we want the latest version, and I’m just not that into compiling from source.
To run php-fpm at startup:
$ sudo cp `brew --prefix php54`/homebrew-php.josegonzalez.php54.plist /Library/LaunchAgents/
$ sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew-php.josegonzalez.php54.plist
Done! Next up: configuration.
Finishing up ∞
I want all php commands to be using the latest version, not the default PHP binary. So I use this little trick to create a symlink from the default PHP binary to the new one… I do this for both php and php-fpm. If you’re confused about which versions are where, use the “whereis” command, like: “whereis php”.
$ php-fpm -v
$ sudo mv /usr/sbin/php-fpm /usr/sbin/php-fpm.bak
$ sudo ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/php54/5.4.11/sbin/php-fpm /usr/sbin/php-fpm
$ php-fpm -v
Notice that the version went from 5.3 to 5.4 (in my case). Now for the php binary:
$ php -v
$ sudo mv /usr/bin/php /usr/bin/php.bak
$ sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/php /usr/bin/php
$ php -v
I also added /usr/local/sbin to the PATH by adding that directory to the /etc/paths file, then restarting Terminal. You can see your current PATH by typing echo $PATH.
Important config files: ∞
/usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
/usr/local/etc/php/5.4/php.ini
/usr/local/etc/nginx/fastcgi_params
You’ll probably want to change these for your
The nice thing about Homebrew installations is that you generally don’t need sudo to use or manage these services, since they’re in /usr/local.
Alright. Well that did it for me. Enjoy your new dev environment!
You can stop nginx with nginx -s stop, and start it again with just nginx. You can also just reload the conf file with nginx -s reload.
I installed MySQL Workbench and was able to make a connection to the localhost MySQL server by adding a connection to host “localhost” with no password. The only thing I typed was that hostname and everything worked like a charm.
I did use my nginx.conf file from my previous install; you can view a sample conf file if you need it, in my other post about using Macports to do this (link at top of this post).
End of Mathew’s text
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In my case, I skipped the homebrew nginx installation because I require openresty (i.e compile nginx with the Lua module support)