Installing Sense for Kibana on OS X

January 16, 2016 by Bo Andersen

Part 5 of 35 in the Complete Guide to Elasticsearch series

Sense is a Kibana plugin that enables one to quickly and easily issue requests to an Elasticsearch cluster. This is done without using a third party tool such as cURL. Sense conveniently includes IntelliSense, helping you remember the appropriate syntax for requests. Let’s see how we can install Sense on OS X. If you are not on… read more

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Installing Kibana for Elasticsearch on OS X

December 10, 2015 by Bo Andersen

Part 4 of 35 in the Complete Guide to Elasticsearch series

The first thing you have to do in order to install Kibana for Mac OS X, is to download Kibana. Kibana can be downloaded here in your browser or by running the below command in your terminal. You should download either the .zip or the .tar.gz file. curl -L -O https://download.elastic.co/kibana/kibana/kibana-4.3.0-darwin-x64.tar.gz Be sure to replace… read more

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Installing Elasticsearch on Mac OS X

November 30, 2015 by Bo Andersen

Part 3 of 35 in the Complete Guide to Elasticsearch series

Installing Elasticsearch on OS X is easy and can be done in just a few simple steps. See how to install Elasticsearch on your Mac here!

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Enabling PHP Error Reporting in MAMP

October 12, 2015 by Bo Andersen

While developing PHP applications with MAMP on OS X, it is very useful to be able to see errors being printed directly in the browser. By default, this is disabled with MAMP, but it is very easy to enable error reporting in MAMP. All you have to do is to follow the simple steps below.… read more

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Installing Tomcat 8 on OS X Yosemite

March 15, 2015 by Bo Andersen

Installing Tomcat 8 on OS X Yosemite is actually quite easy. One can do it with the help of Homebrew or MacPorts, but I prefer to do it “by hand”. All you have to do is to follow the steps below. First, head over to the Apache Tomcat download page and download the core binary distribution… read more

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Installing nginx on OS X Yosemite

December 17, 2014 by Bo Andersen

As always, there are many ways to accomplish this. My approach is based on Homebrew and assumes that you have it installed. If not, then the first thing you have to do is to install it. Installing nginx on OS X To install nginx, simply open up the Terminal and enter the following command. brew… read more

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Installing the mcrypt PHP extension on OS X

June 4, 2014 by Bo Andersen

As with any PHP extension, the mcrypt extension can be a bit tricky to install. This guide is meant to simplify this task, and most of the work will be done in the Terminal. Before beginning, please ensure that you have Xcode installed, which can be found in the App Store as well as the… read more

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Installing the PHP intl extension on OS X Mavericks

March 6, 2014 by Bo Andersen

Sometimes one needs to use internationalization features in PHP. It might be that a library that you are using depends upon the PHP intl extension – for instance, some validators in Zend Framework 2 do so. This article will show you how to install the things you need by hand. It has been tested on… read more

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Easily Start and Stop Development Tools in OS X

March 28, 2013 by Bo Andersen

It can quickly become repetitive to start and stop all of your development tools; many people do not want to have a web server or database running all of the time, for instance. This article shows you an easy way of simplifying this, so you can run a single command from the Terminal to start or stop your development tools.

Setting up Apache with Dropbox on OS X

September 15, 2012 by Bo Andersen

Getting Apache to work together with Dropbox turns out to be slightly more difficult than most would have anticipated. Adding a virtual host to point directly to a Dropbox folder will only get you a 403 Forbidden error. In this article, we will solve this problem by using symbolic links.

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