Mongodb and MAMP

Question

I am using MAMP and would like to use mongo with PHP. I am stuck because the version of MAMP I'm using is the latest version I can find, and it's running PHP 5.2.11. The only Mongo PHP install I can find for OSX is for PHP 5.3.

Is there any way to get mongo working with PHP using MAMP?

Answer 1

For MAMP 2.1.2 and PHP 5.4.10

1. Download MongoDB php driver .

2. copy mongo.so to

   /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.10/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20100525/
   

   and using temrinal

   cd /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.10/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20100525/ && wget https://github.com/downloads/stennie/mongo-php-driver/mongo.so
   

3. open

   /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.10/conf/php.ini
   

   Find ; Extensions

   add extension=mongo.so

4. Restart MAMP.

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Above steps will install MongoDB driver 1.2.10.

To install latest Mongodb driver using PECL

1. install autoconf using homebrew or Mac Ports

   brew install autoconf
   

2. Download php 5.4.10 source from php.net.

3. rename uncompressed php source folder from php-5.4.10 to php and paste it in this folder

   /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.10/include/
   

4. using the terminal open php folder and run ./configure

   cd /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.10/include/php/ && ./configure
   

5. Add MAMP bin to your ~/.bash_profile

   echo "export PATH=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.10/bin:$PATH" >> ~/.bash_profile 
   source ~/.bash_profile
   

6. install latest mongo

   pecl install mongo
   

7. restart MAMP server :).

Answer 2

Here's a tutorial how to do it: http://www.davidgolding.net/mongodb/installing-mongodb-on-mamp-1-9-5.html

Post was removed so here's the tutorial:

Appsolute launched MAMP version 1.9.5 today, so I thought it’d be a great time to add MongoDB to it and improve my NoSQL skills.

1. Prepare MAMP for MongoDB files

Create a new folder at Applications/MAMP/db/mongo with three additional subfolders named bin, data, and tmp. Provide these folders with chmod 0755 access permissions. These folders will be the main runtime location for Mongo once MAMP gets it running.

1. Download MongoDB

Grab the latest Mac OS install package of MongoDB. My server setup called for OS X 64-bit, version 1.6.5. It’ll have a directory named bin. Drop the files from this folder into the /Applications/MAMP/db/mongo/bin folder you already created.

1. Download Mongo Driver for PHP

I’m running PHP 5.3 (why use MongoDB with any earlier version of PHP?), so I’ll need the mongo.so extension to get PHP and Mongo working together. This is available at the MongoDB GitHub repository, under the PHP 5.3 for Mac binary. After unpacking the downloaded file, place the mongo.so extension file in the /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5.3/lib/php/extensions folder.

Update: An alternative is to place the mongo.so file in the /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5.3/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626 folder and avoid having to edit the php.ini file. It appears that MAMP 1.9.5 already has the extension=mongo.so line in the extensions block of the php.ini file, even though version 1.9.5 doesn’t come bundled with Mongo. 4. Create Startup Routines for MAMP

Lastly, you’ll need to create the startup routines so that MAMP will launch Mongo along with MySQL and Apache. Create a new file at /Applications/MAMP/bin/startMongo.sh and place in it the following code:

# /bin/sh
/Applications/MAMP/db/mongo/bin/mongod --dbpath /Applications/MAMP/db/mongo/data --logpath /Applications/MAMP/db/mongo/mongodb.log --pidfilepath /Applications/MAMP/db/mongo/tmp/mongo.pid --fork --logappend

When called, this script will launch Mongo using the MAMP-relative paths rather than Mongo’s system defaults.

Create another file at /Applications/MAMP/bin/stopMongo.sh and place the shutdown method:

# /bin/sh
/bin/kill `cat /Applications/MAMP/db/mongo/tmp/mongo.pid`

This works like the previous script, except it kills the mongo.pid process, effectively shutting down Mongo.

To have MAMP automatically call these Mongo startup scripts, open the /Applications/MAMP/bin/start.sh and /Applications/MAMP/bin/stop.sh files, and insert the following lines above the startMysql.sh lines, respectively:

1 /Applications/MAMP/bin/startMongo.sh

1 /Applications/MAMP/bin/stopMongo.sh

Now MAMP will automatically launch Mongo upon startup.

The only thing left to do is tell PHP to run the mongo.so extension. If you’re running MAMP Pro, edit the php.ini file by selecting File > Edit Template > PHP 5.3 php.ini, otherwise you’ll need to lookup the path the php.ini file from the MAMP startup screen, under “phpInfo” and “Loaded Configuration File.”

Insert the following line in the php.ini file/template, save the file, then restart MAMP.

1 extension="/Applications/MAMP/bin/php5.3/lib/php/extensions/mongo.so"

Mongo should now run in the background on MAMP, which you can connect with from PHP using the main connection routines listed on the PHP site. Welcome to NoSQL on MAMP!

Answer 3

MAMP is now at version 2.2, which comes with PHP v 5.5.3. I managed to get Mongodb working had to jump through a few hoops to get there.

Start with a clean install of MAMP 2.2, make sure that's working.

1. I made this the system version of PHP, (not sure if necessary at this stage).

Find out the default version of php you are using, with the terminal command

$ which php
/usr/bin/php

Then back this up

$ sudo mv /usr/bin/php /usr/bin/php.bak

Then create a symlink to the MAMP latest version of php

$ sudo ln -s /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.5.3/bin/php /usr/bin/php

Check this has been updated

$ which php
/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.5.3/bin/php

2. Installing Mongo

$ cd /Applications/MAMP/db
$ curl http://downloads.mongodb.org/osx/mongodb-osx-x86_64-2.4.6.tgz > mongodb.tgz
$ tar -zxvf mongodb.tgz
$ rm mongodb.tgz
$ mv mongodb* mongo
$ mkdir mongo/data/db

Test to make sure mongo is working

$ ./mongo/bin/mongod --dbpath /Applications/MAMP/db/mongo/data/db

Should output some code, ending in 'waiting for connections on port 27017' press Ctrl + C to quit for now.

3. Now we can create a script to start/stop mongod automatically from the MAMP GUI. This inspiration came from a previous answer, by Alexandru Rada, but didn't quite work how he explained - I think this is to do with being a newer MAMP version.

In /Applications/MAMP/bin create a file called startMongo.sh and insert the following

# /bin/sh
/Applications/MAMP/db/mongo/bin/mongod --dbpath /Applications/MAMP/db/mongo/data/db --logpath /Applications/MAMP/logs/mongodb.log --pidfilepath /Applications/MAMP/tmp/mongo/mongo.pid --fork --logappend

I also created the mongo tmp folder at /Applications/MAMP/tmp/mongo

In the same bin directory create a file called stopMongo.sh and insert the following:

# /bin/sh
/bin/kill `cat /Applications/MAMP/tmp/mongo/mongo.pid`

Make these files executable

$ chmod 775 /Applications/MAMP/bin/startMongo.sh /Applications/MAMP/bin/stopMongo.sh

Now update the startApache.sh and stopApache.sh scripts to include our new files respectively.

Use the Activity Monitor in /Applications/Utilities and search for mongod. When you now start MAMP you should see the process mongod is started. When you stop or quit MAMP you should see this process is automatically killed.

4. We still need to install the mongo-php driver, which is also a pain. To do this I added the MAMP bin directory to my bash $PATH variable. To do this I had to edit the hidden file ~/.profile - but be aware that your $PATH might be loaded from somewhere else.

export PATH=$PATH:/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.5.3/bin:/Applications/MAMP/db/mongo/bin

Note that each element is separated by a :. Quit terminal and re-open, then $ echo $PATH to check your new directories have been added to the path. You could also try $ which pecl or $ which mongod.

We still need some extras from PHP php.net download the same php stable version and unzip it. Create the folder 'include' at /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.5.3/include . Drag the unzipped stable version of php to the include folder, and rename it to just 'php'.

$ cd /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.5.3/include/php
$ ./configure

Now at last, we can hopefully run

$ sudo pecl install mongo

5. Now we just need to update our php config file to add the mongo.so extension. Open /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.5.3/conf/php.ini in a text editor, under the 'extensions' section, add in

extension=mongo.so

Quit and re-open MAMP!