#Mamp pro troubleshooting how to
#Mamp pro troubleshooting install
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The apparent way around this, the suggestion give in a comment on this page, and on the BSD installation page, about using PHP, in the LocalSettings.php file, to modify the PATH variable to get around this does not appear to work, at least not on 10.3.9, and I'm guessing Apple closed that down as a security hole. Part of this is that apache (and programs that apache launches) are given a very restricted PATH so that it's less likely that unwanted code can somehow land up being run. That's where you get all sorts of the problems described in various comments on this page.Īpple has been (to its credit) very aggressive about ensuring that people who don't know what they are doing cannot easily make their system insecure. But how does texvc know where the three programs it wants to use are? Mediawiki knows where texvc is because the mediawiki code has the address of texvc hardwired as being inside the wiki/math directory. The mediawiki code, running inside apache, and thus as user This means that mediawiki has to know where texvc is, and that texvc has to know where latex, dvips and convert are. Now we are faced with the following problem. Library/WebServer/Documents/mediawiki/math or usr/local/bin/convert (from the ImageMagick installation)Ĭd /Library/WebServer/Documents/wiki99/math OK, so at this stage we have the binaries we need (If you have any of these already installed, you may wish to use the port upgrade command to bring them up to date.)

#Mamp pro troubleshooting install

Use MacPorts to download and install ocaml, tetex, ghostscript Check your PATH with echo $PATH and, if it does not include /opt/local/bin (to hold MacPorts programs) and /usr/local/bin (for ImageMagick programs), edit your ~/.bash_profile or whatever config file you use appropriately. Because of this, you should now open a new terminal window to start a shell that has this new PATH.

#Mamp pro troubleshooting update

Note that MacPorts will update your PATH to include /opt/local/bin.Open a command-line tool, and update your MacPorts installation and port definitions to the latest ones (in case what you downloaded is slightly out of date).Go to and download the MacPorts installer, if you have not already done so.

#Mamp pro troubleshooting how to

If not, do a google search telling you how to install Xcode. I'm also assuming that you have the developer tools (compilers and so installed).I'm assuming that, per the main page instructions you already have ImageMagick installed.I've just gone through the TeX pain, so, while it's fresh in my memory, let me describe everything I did. After a solution is found, it would make sense to add content to this site, but for now I've put these remarks in the 'Discussion' category. I'm posting this here in case others have a suggestion for solving this on an OSX/Fink system.

I do not yet know how to tell Apache that such things exist, so on my OSX machine, Mathematics does not work.

That puts them in the directory path /sw instead of /usr. These are not provided in OSX and so many OSX users install these things using the FINK system. To display nontrivial Mathematical expressions, the system requires some additional software: LaTeX, ImageMagick,Īnd gs.