PHP Extensions on OSX Lion

By Morten Møller Riis

June 13 2012 10:30 CET

Since OSX Lion comes prepackaged with both Apache2 and PHP 5.3.8 it is pretty easy to setup local PHP development.

However, installing extensions is not straight-forward.

That is, until you setup PECL. PECL and PEAR by default aren’t installed on OSX Lion.

To correct this:

              cd /usr/lib/php
              sudo php install-pear-nozlib.phar

This will install PECL and PEAR.

Now you will be able to install extensions such as geoip:

            sudo pecl install geoip

Remember to add extension=geoip.so or similar in /etc/php.ini and restart Apache2 (sudo apachectl restart).