If you have to ask these questions, i don't think you should be the person to do it, i'm sorry. I wouldn't recommend doing it on a mac, or even one single box, i wouldnt recommend doig it on non-server hardware, infact most of the time i would recommend you just buy already pre-sertup servers so that all you have to do is set up your database, upload your application and be done with it, VPS or a ded box will serve the purpose quite nicely depending on your needs. It's not rocket science, but building a production server requires some know-how and a bit of experience. You need to know each component to configure it well, you need to know the OS, you need to secure it, and you may need to tweak it to perform better and you need to know your application to maximize performance of all of the components, and you need to be up to date on current trends and technology to again, maximize your throughput. You need to know systems and you need to think solutions, unless you really dont care, but that's how you end up with a 5rps website that's about as secure as a taped carboard box. Infact, in my practice, i took a poorly implemented box that could only serve 5rps at 128M mem usage (and climbing) and 100% cpu utilization, and got it to serve 340rps using 14MB memory with no visible cpu load (like sub 2% spikes) and with no code modifications; and i could take it farther, infact i did on the testing server where i got it to over 600rps, but i only had 4 hours to find, tweak and test before pushing to production and i wasn't allowed to tweak the bone-stock OS or build anything (held true for the 600+ mark)... Some day i wanna take the smallest ec2 instance and see how far i can really push it, though the people i did the above for found it pretty impressive that they could click on any page on the site (it was a social media experiment and so parts were constantly updated) and have it loaded instantly, even when i was pounding on the server... Anyways not trying to stroke my ego by any means, or tell you that you shouldn't do it, infact you should do it, its a lot of fun and great perplexing headache for a while, all i'm trying to say is that you should think about either buying a production environment, or you should really start learning yourself some advanced OS and lots of layer 7... Just my $.02 -- The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late. ~Seymour Cray On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:24 AM, Chris Stinemetz <chrisstinemetz@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Does anyone have a procedure or know of any tutorials that explain how > to take a mac/apache/php/mysql dev environment and converting it to > production environment? > > Basically I want to host my own web site on my local machine now that > I have finished developing it. > > Thanks in advance! > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
