Remotely connect to Amazon S3 Bucket from the macOS command line
Connecting your macOS to AmazonS3 storage buckets. This process requires a couple of Unix tools installed, s3cmd and gpg (optional), s3cmd is the command line tool used to connect to Amazon S3 and gpg is an optional secure tool allowing…
Set up Virtual Hosts on macOS Big Sur 11 in Apache
Setting up Virtual Hosts in Apache on on macOS Big Sur is straight forward after you have your local Web Development environment up and running – get your web development up and running first including Apache, PHP and MySQL on…
Set up Swift Performance Cache with Optimus Prime in Local Mode
Optimus Prime is a cache warmer to load web pages faster on initial load by querying all pages on a websites sitemap via the sitemap URL, it works in harmony with a cache plugin preloading tool. Optimus Prime also has…
Installing & Configuring Apache on macOS using Homebrew and use Sites folder
Eventhough Apache ships with macOS, a better maintained version would be coming from Homebrew, also Apple is making noises about not supporting legacy software like PHP so in the future this may be more of a compulsory option.macOS use to…
Installing MariaDB Database Server on macOS
MariaDB is an alternative to MySQL database which is more performant with a full open license, you can install it easily on macOS via Homebrew. The first step is to install Homebrew on your computer and possibly to remove any…
Remove MySQL database server from macOS or OSX via the command line
To remove an instance of MySQL Database Server from your macOS or OSX installation you need to delete a number of files via the command line, but first ensure that you have database dumps of your databases and that then…
Updating to PHP versions 7.4 and 8 on macOS 11 Big Sur and Catalina
The latest macOS versions of Big Sur and Catalina currently ship with PHP 7.3 and have a deprecation notice that they intend to drop support for PHP altogether in a future upgrade.You can see this by running a <? phpinfo();…
Set up WP Fastest Cache with Optimus Prime in Local Mode
Optimus Prime is a cache warmer to load web pages faster on initial load by querying all pages on a websites sitemap via the sitemap URL, it works in harmony with a cache plugin preloading tool. Optimus Prime also has…
