Question

I’m having a problem running a command in php using APC in my mac. In the MAMP Pro i have it on but looks like my mac is not using MAMP’s php but using osx’.

Any idea about how to tell my mac to use MAMP Pro instead of OSX’ php.ini?

Answer 1

The MAMP Pro PHP executable should be located in /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.x.x/bin/.

The OSX PHP is located in /usr/bin/php and /usr/bin is in PATH variable by default.

One way to make OSX use MAMP PHP is to add /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.x.x/bin/ to your PATH variable (before /usr/bin):

Simply edit ~/.profile (ie. open Terminal.app, type vim ~/.profile) and add the following line to end of the file:

export PATH=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.x.x/bin/:$PATH

Note that you should replace xs in php5.x.x with the MAMP Pro PHP version.