Unix → How to Install Apache, MySQL, PHP, and phpMyAdmin on FreeBSD
(20130325 – This post has been amended to reflect changes in the most recent versions of software — iceflatline)
This post will describe how to install and configure Apache, MySQL, PHP and phpMyAdmin on FreeBSD for basic local web development. Once set up, you’ll be able to use your “AMP” server to do web development, code testing, maintain local copies of your web sites, etc.
The software discussed in this post are available as free and open source under various licensing structures. The versions of software discussed in this post are as follows:
The following steps discussed in this post assume you have the FreeBSD Ports Collection installed. If not, you can install it by using the following commands:
portsnap fetch portsnap extract
If the Ports Collection is already installed, make sure to update it:
portsnap fetch update
Okay, let’s get started. All commands are issued as the root user or by simulating the root user by using the command su. While building the various ports you should accept all default configuration options unless otherwise instructed.
Install Apache
Navigate to the Apache server port and build it:
cd /usr/ports/www/apache22 make install clean
Once Apache has been successfully installed, add the following line to /etc/rc.conf so that the Apache server will start automatically at system boot.
echo 'apache22_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf
Now let’s start Apache to make sure it works:
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 start
Point your web browser to the host name or IP address of the FreeBSD host you’ve installed Apache on and you should see the venerable “It Works.”
Install MySQL.
Now let’s build the MySQL server:
cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql55-server make install clean
Add the following line to /etc/rc.conf:
echo 'mysql_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf
And start the mysql server:
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server start
Then set a password for the MySQL root user:
/usr/local/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'your-password'
Install PHP
Next, we’ll build PHP. Before we proceed, however, we need to add a configuration option so that PHP build includes support for the Apache server. Start with the following commands:
cd /usr/ports/lang/php5 make config
A menu should come up allowing you to select/deselect various build options. You should select “Build Apache module” by highlighting the option with the arrow keys and hitting the space bar, then hit Enter, which should bring you back to the command prompt. Now proceed with building the port:
make install clean
Now let’s add the requisite extensions to PHP to round out its capabilities. Before we build this port though we’ll want to add support for both MySQL and MySQLi (an improved interface to MySQL) in order to communicate with the MySQL server.
cd /usr/ports/lang/php5-extensions/ make config
In the corresponding menu you should select “MySQL database support” and “MySQLi database support,” then proceed with building the port:
make install clean
Install phpMyAdmin
phpMyAdmin is a free software tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL from your web browser. phpMyAdmin supports a wide range of operations with MySQL, including managing databases, tables, fields, relations, indexes, users, permissions, etc., from an easy-to-use web page, while you still have the ability to directly execute any SQL statement from the command line if you prefer. Installing phpMyAdmin is optional but it’s nice tool to have. Here again we’ll want to add support for MySQL and MySQLi before building the port:
cd /usr/ports/databases/phpmyadmin/ make config
Here you should ensure that both “MYSQL PHP MySQL support via mysql client” and “MYSQLI PHP Improved MySQL client support” are selected, then proceed with building the port:
make install clean
Configuration
Now that we have the requisite ports built and installed it’s time to configure them. First, let’s create the file /usr/local/etc/php.ini to hold our PHP options. The simpliest way to do this is to copy the file /usr/local/etc/php.ini-development which will add the default settings for new PHP installations. This configuration is suitable for development purposes, but NOT necessarily for production purposes. If your plans include a production server, then among other things, and before going online with your site, you should consider copying /usr/local/etc/php.ini-production instead and consult the recommendations at http://php.net/manual/en/security.php.
cp /usr/local/etc/php.ini-development /usr/local/etc/php.ini
Now let’s configure Apache. Open the file /usr/local/etc/apache22/httpd.conf in your favorite editor and look for the following line:
DirectoryIndex index.html
And change it so it reads as follows:
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php
Then append the following lines to the end of the file in order to support PHP files as well as phpMyAdmin, which normally lives outside of the Apache document root. Note: if you elected not to install phpMyAdmin, then you need only add the two AddType lines:
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps Alias /phpmyadmin "/usr/local/www/phpMyAdmin" <Directory "/usr/local/www/phpMyAdmin"> Options None AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory>
As an optional step, if you’d like to add multilanguage support to Apache, uncomment the following line:
Include etc/apache22/extra/httpd-languages.conf
Then open the language settings file /usr/local/etc/apache22/extra/httpd-languages.conf and add the following line to the end of the file:
AddDefaultCharset On
Now restart Apache:
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 restart
That’s it for our Apache configuration. Now let’s configure phpMyAdmin. We’ll do this by creating the file /usr/local/www/phpMyAdmin/config.inc.php, the basic configuration file for phpMyAdmin. Traditionally, users have manually created config.inc.php, but now phpMyAdmin includes a nice setup script, making it much easier to create this file with the settings you want. Start by creating the directory /usr/local/www/phpMyAdmin/config and make it writable by phpMyAdmin:
mkdir /usr/local/www/phpMyAdmin/config && chmod o+w /usr/local/www/phpMyAdmin/config
Then open your web browser and navigate to http://your-hostname-or-IP-address/phpmyadmin/setup where you will see the phpMyAdmin setup Overview page. Select “New server” and then select the “Authentication” tab. Under the “Authentication type” choose “http” from the drop-down list (using HTTP-Auth to sign-in into phpMyAdmin will avoid storing login/password credentials directly in config.inc.php) and remove “root” from the “User for config auth”(See Figure 1).
Now select “Save” and you will be returned you to the Overview page where you should see a new server listed. Select “Save” again in the Overview page to save your configuration as /usr/local/www/phpMyAdmin/config/config.inc.php. Now let’s move that file to /usr/local/www/phpMyAdmin where phpMyAdmin can make use of it.
mv /usr/local/www/phpMyAdmin/config/config.inc.php /usr/local/www/phpMyAdmin
Now let’s try out phpMyAdmin to make sure it works. Point your web browser to http://your-hostname-or-IP-address/phpmyadmin where you will be presented with a pop-up box requesting you to log in. Use “root” and the MySQL password you set up previously, then you should be directed to the phpMyAdmin administration page. We no longer need the /usr/local/www/phpMyAdmin/config directory so let’s remove it and wrap up by restarting the Apache and MySQL servers:
rm -r /usr/local/www/phpMyAdmin/config /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 restart /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server restart
Testing our installation using WordPress
WordPress is a full-featured website/blog platform that makes heavy use of Apache, MySQL and PHP. We’ll install it on our newly created implementation to ensure we have these packages installed and working correctly. Once again, all commands are issued as the root user or by simulating the root user using the command su. Let’s start by downloading the latest WordPress directly from the developers site to your home directory and untarring the package:
fetch http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz tar -zxvf latest.tar.gz
You should now see the new directory wordpress in your home directory. Next we need to create the file ~/wordpress/wp-config.php and make some changes to it so WordPress can access the MySQL server. First, let’s copy the file ~/wordpress/wp-config-sample.php to use as a template:
cp ~/wordpress/wp-config-sample.php ~/wordpress/wp-config.php
Open ~/wordpress/wp-config.php in your favorite editor and enter the database name as well as your MySQL login and password in the appropriate lines. When complete, it should look like the following:
// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress');
/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'root');
/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'your-mysql-password');
Now move the wordpress directory to Apache’s document root:
mv ~/wordpress/ /usr/local/www/apache22/data/
Next, let’s create an MySQL database for our WordPress installation. Open phpMyAdmin in your browser and create a database by selecting the “Databases” tab at the top. Enter a name for it in the “Create a new database” field. For purposes of our example, I’ll use “wordpress” as the database name. You’re free to use a different database name, just make sure to use the same name in the define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘your-DB-name’); line in ~/wordpress/wp-config.php as described above. Then select “Create.”
Now let’s run the WordPress script that will populate its database with the requisite tables. Open your web browser and navigate to http://your-hostname-or-IP-address/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php. If everything is configured correctly you should see the WordPress installation wizard page (See Figure 2). Enter a title for your site, username, password, and an e-mail, then select “Install WordPress.” Then login with your newly created WordPress credentials and you should be presented with the default WordPress administration page.
Common problems
You may run into the following error when attempting to build the Apache port:
httpd-2.2.21.tar.bz2 doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/apache22. => Attempting to fetch http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/httpd-2.2.21.tar.bz2 fetch: httpd-2.2.21.tar.bz2: local file (7229347 bytes) is longer than remote file (5324905 bytes) => port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/apache22 and try again. *** Error code 1
To fix this problem, simply remove the file from /usr/ports/distfiles/apache22 (in this case httpd-2.2.21.tar.bz2) and run make config clean again.
Another error that occasionally pops up when attempting to start the Apache server is the following:
httpd: apr_sockaddr_info_get() failed for <some-host-name> httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22: WARNING: failed to start apache22
This can be fixed by adding a line to /etc/hosts. First, verify your hostname by running the hostname command:
hostname
Then add the following to /etc/hosts:
hostname IP-address-of-your-freebsd-box
Finally, 403 permission problems seem to frequently pop up when trying to access phpMyAdmin. This is usually caused by errors in the way either the Alias or Directory Apache directives for phpMyAdmin have been written in /usr/local/etc/apache22/httpd.conf. As an example, a missing “/” in the Alias statement cost me two hours of troubleshooting time!
Conclusion
Well, that’s it. A few hours of your time with the FreeBSD Ports Collection and you can a get a fully configured “AMP” web development server up and running on your FreeBSD box.
References
http://caffetine.org/freebsd-amp.php
Tags: freebsd, server, Unix, wordpress
November 16th, 2011 at 7:47 am
Nice tutorial…. thanks !!!
January 28th, 2012 at 8:21 pm
Thanks a lot for this tutorial! It helped me a lot. :)
January 28th, 2012 at 10:37 pm
airjure, you’re welcome. Thanks for the comment.
February 15th, 2012 at 4:56 pm
This is just what I am looking for. It is so much easier with layouts and color code. Thank you.
February 16th, 2012 at 6:19 pm
Jayson: Thanks for your kind comments.
February 24th, 2012 at 7:18 pm
Great stuff!
Perfect, best current guide out there, really. thanks a lot!
February 25th, 2012 at 11:23 am
Johannes, glad it was helpful. Thanks for the kind words.
February 26th, 2012 at 5:38 am
Thank you for the hint on the
“local file (7229347 bytes) is longer than remote file (5324905 bytes)”
error.
That fixed my problem when trying to upgrade Apache.
February 26th, 2012 at 11:03 am
DrTebi: Great! Glad it worked.
March 22nd, 2012 at 10:23 pm
Excellent tutorial. Worked perfect!
March 23rd, 2012 at 8:36 am
Jayr, awesome! Thanks for posting your comment.
April 17th, 2012 at 7:44 pm
Hello,
Followed your directions but php info document does not work
My browser just tries to download it. This is FreeBSD9-STABLE with same apache and php you had. Any ideas? Seems like getting php to work on FreeBSd is turned into a huge mess since the 4.x fbsd days!
April 18th, 2012 at 9:43 am
matt, hmmm… not sure. I used 9.0-RELEASE for the post. Perhaps there is something in STABLE that has broken compatibility? If I get some time I’ll try to recreate using STABLE.
April 21st, 2012 at 7:20 pm
thank U sir!
May 29th, 2012 at 12:45 pm
Everything work perfect accept for the last one WordPress… received below message when I try to open the wp-config.php from web browser
“Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress.”
May 29th, 2012 at 4:37 pm
colour, I’m unclear on why you are attempting to open wp-config in your browser. Did you try to open http://your-hostname-or-IP-address/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php?
June 13th, 2012 at 9:41 pm
This tutorial is excellent. However, I continue to have an issue when attempting to run ‘~/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php’. The error is “Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress.”
The environment is FreeBSD 9.0, Apache 2.2.22, MySQL 5.5.25, PHP 5.4.3, phpMyAdmin 3.5.1, PHP extension: mysqli, and WordPress 3.4.
I have gone over the php.ini file and uncommented all the necessary lines but the error continues. Everything seems to be functioning properly.
Suggestions?
Thank you in advance.
June 14th, 2012 at 12:11 pm
I’ve got the same error as Charles above. I’ve gone through the steps above to the letter but I also get a
“Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress.”
June 14th, 2012 at 2:09 pm
Charles, I’m running the same packages but have not encountered that error. You might try restarting the apache and mysql servers, and then create a phpinfo.php page to see if mysql and mysqli support are indeed present. Finally, you may want to try reinstalling the php5-extensions package without the mysqli support to see if that might be gumming things up for you.
There should be no further configuration needed to /usr/local/etc/php.ini after successfully copying it from /usr/local/etc/php.ini-development, however, I’ve posted mine to http://pastebin.com/74X4k0MD in case it might be helpful to you.
Good luck and let me know what you find out.
June 15th, 2012 at 6:02 am
Hiya.
I’m not sure why my name came out as reaper above, stupid auto-fill.
I recompiled php5-extensions with both MySQLi and MySQL support. This time I got no error. The only problem now is that I just get a blank page when I browse to my site :(
No errors in the access log:
– - [15/Jun/2012:09:57:29 +0100] “GET /ccie/ HTTP/1.1″ 200 -
So the get is working. No error here. NO 403 or 404 error in my browser either. Just a blank page.
Any ideas?
June 16th, 2012 at 9:23 am
Charles, Darren, I’ve attempted to reinstall everything using the lastest packages and, among other issues, am encountering the same mysql error. I’ll figure out what the issues are and repost when I find a work around. Apologies for the hassles…
June 16th, 2012 at 7:14 pm
No worries. I’ve got my site running on my Linux box. I might actually go for an older version of FreeBSD if I find some time
June 18th, 2012 at 7:46 pm
Okay, reinstalled from scratch this weekend using the most recent packages. This time adding both the mysql and the mysqli options when compiling php5-extensions. WordPress installed without error. It appears there is now a dependency on the older PHP MySQL driver where one did not exist before. Or, more likely, it was selected by default in an earlier port and I failed to notice it and compiled it in, which would explain why subsequent port updates failed to catch anything wrong in my implementation. Anyway, the package list and installation steps in the post have been updated. My thanks to Charles and Daren for bringing the problem to light.
June 18th, 2012 at 10:35 pm
I haven’t been able to address the issue since last week. I’ll reinstall as well and add both mysql/msqli.
Sounds like that may be the issue.
Thanks.
June 20th, 2012 at 8:57 pm
Just finished re-installing from scratch. Once I added the mysql and mysqli options the install went flawlessly.
Thanks for the great tutorial and the assistance with the dependency issue.
June 21st, 2012 at 10:44 am
Charles, thanks for taking the time to verify, and apologies again for the hassle.
June 25th, 2012 at 11:21 am
Thank you very much!
June 26th, 2012 at 10:34 am
ronjns, you’re welcome. Thanks for the comment.
August 4th, 2012 at 12:39 pm
Excelente tutorial, muy completo, enhorabuena.
Saludos.
September 4th, 2012 at 12:20 pm
I’ve been trying to get this to work and I get stuck on the phpmyadmin stuff – I point a browser at it and I get an unprocessed php file sent from the server. There were also a couple dependencies that wouldn’t compile right, but I was able to pkg_add them.
Thanks for the guide though. :) Any chance of a less compiling “pkg_add -r” solution?
September 4th, 2012 at 1:00 pm
Gerald, sorry to hear about your difficulties compiling the requisite ports. Glad you got it working though. I typically don’t use pre-compiled binary packages on *bsd so unlikely I’ll write an article explaining their use in this application. You never know though…
September 4th, 2012 at 1:06 pm
And no… pkg_add isn’t doable due to default compile time options not building the right bits. Furthermore mixing pkg_add and compiled ports stuff confuses dependencies in both systems – eventually making stuff refuse to work. :p
What broke me is that I had already installed some other utils using pkg_add, and it broke the compile time dependency checks in the ports builds. I’ve regressed my pkg_add chain and am now doing ports builds for those utils as well.
September 4th, 2012 at 1:10 pm
Gerald, good advice. Thanks for sharing it.
September 4th, 2012 at 1:48 pm
You’re welcome. Thank you for the starting point.
For the details of the problems I encountered (and my mistakes) – one of the php5 dependencies didn’t want to build because it conflicted with a conf package that pkg_add had installed to support mc (midnight commander). So I simply did “pkg_add -r php5″, everything looked okay… except the precompiled package doesn’t include the apache module. D’oh.
So, to clean up the mess – pkg_deleted the conflicting package, and everything stacked on top of it (mc, php5), including the stuff that stacked on when it was compiled (php5-extensions, phpmyadmin.) Now compiling everything over again. I’ll rebuild mc after I have AMP running.
Something I did different – the 11 lines of support for php became /usr/local/etc/apache22/Includes/php5.conf on my setup because apache autoloads all .conf files in that directory. Keeps httpd.conf just a little cleaner.
Anyway, experience shared, lessons learned. Thank you again for the basic guide. :)
September 7th, 2012 at 6:21 am
Thank you VERY MUCH for this great article. It was exactly what I was looking for, and your instructions were clear and spot on! I had to laugh today, when I read your “Common Problems” section this morning – after I spend an hour last night trying to get the phpMyAdmin to work. I too had the missing “/” in my Apache config files. :-) That will teach me for not reading the setup instructions completely, before I start the setup.
September 7th, 2012 at 11:29 am
Graeme, You’re quite welcome. Don’t feel too bad, I’ve actually tripped over this problem twice! That will teach me for not reading my own setup instructions.
September 27th, 2012 at 11:06 am
I can’t tell you how much this helped me. Even though I ran into extra snags since I’m trying to install these programs in a FreeNAS Jail, I still don’t think I would have come close to being successful without this guide. Thank you, thank you, and thank you.
September 27th, 2012 at 11:14 am
Blueigloo, You’re very welcome. I’m glad it helped. I’ve not tried to stand this up in FreeNAS before; however, I have used FreeNAS for simply storing the Apache doc root. I also recently switched from FreeNAS to NAS4Free and like it much better.
Cheers.
October 31st, 2012 at 2:17 am
Hi, Anybody can help Pls.
After Follow >> mv /usr/local/www/phpMyAdmin/config/config.inc.php /usr/local/www/phpMyAdmin and will try again then not show anything
Help me ple.
Somsak
November 4th, 2012 at 9:23 pm
Somsak, thanks for posting and apologies for the delay in responding. I just ran through the steps on a new FreeBSD 9 RELEASE system and was able to install everything with no issues. About the only thing I can suggest at this point is to carefully run back through the steps and post again if you need clarification on any of them.
December 4th, 2012 at 10:04 am
i have problem regarding this
can someone help me??
stop in /usr/ports/archivers/php5-zip
this happen i try to built phpmadmin ports
December 5th, 2012 at 2:34 pm
ahmadsarang, I assume your trying to install PHP5? I just installed AMP per the instructions above on a fresh install of FreeBSD 9-RELEASE and encountered no such error. Does the stop message give any other indication of what the problem might be?
You might also try installing portmaster (/usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster) and try installing PHP5 using it:
December 31st, 2012 at 2:58 pm
Thanks a lot for this nice tutorial. It helps me to integrate newly created jail on nas4free with a webserver.
December 31st, 2012 at 9:03 pm
chaoman, you’re very welcome. Thanks for the kind words.
January 3rd, 2013 at 7:00 pm
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January 18th, 2013 at 2:16 pm
Hey, I run the process and everything goes perfectly until i get to the part where i create the config folder in the phpMyAdmin and am supposed to run the setup from hostname/phpMyAdmin/Setup and i get a 404 not found… could you advise as to why this is
January 18th, 2013 at 2:20 pm
Just and Update, My Apache page shows IT works and all and everything works like perfectly but the part where i am supposed to Setup the PHP MY ADMIN is not working… I did the install twice to the exact specifications listed and found that its the same for me… what am i doing wrong, other than the My Admin excellent Article and Thanks for the help…
January 18th, 2013 at 2:34 pm
Hi I found that i am logged in with the Root account and when i try to access the PhpMyAdmin/Config folder which i created with the mkdir like explained and adding the CHMOD o+w it i am unable to access it as it says that my root account his permission denied
When i open the url to the setup its a 404 url not found on server…what else can i do to grant access to the folder
January 18th, 2013 at 8:27 pm
XenitXTD, in my experience that problem is usually caused by errors in the way either the Alias or Directory Apache directives for phpMyAdmin have been written in /usr/local/etc/apache22/httpd.conf. Make sure they are entered as follows, including character case:
February 27th, 2013 at 4:45 am
nice how to, ur da best :)
March 3rd, 2013 at 2:18 pm
Hi,
Excellent tutorial, easy to follow and brief where it should be.
I’ve only just completed my first ever freebsd install (release 9.1 in a vm) and almost everything has worked as per your tutorial.
One problem I have had though, came right at the end, where wordpress was expecting the wp-login.php script to reside within a “wp-admin” folder within wordpress [http:///wordpress//wp-login.php] whereas, my install of wordpress seems to have it in the root directory (wordpress/).
I manually altered the url, the script worked and logged me into the site, but I wonder whether I should create the “wp-admin” folder within wordpress or maybe look to find the line inside wordpress/index.php and change that to wordpress/wp-login.php rather than wordpress/wp-admin/wp-login.php.
I’m not sure why this is different, I don’t think I’ve deviated in any meaningful way from the tutorial…
The one significant difference might be that I originally installed release 9.0 of freebsd, then let the system upgrade overnight to 9.1.
Anyway, some advice and maybe pointers to a solution would be much appreciated.
Thanks, and thanks again for a great tutorial.
March 3rd, 2013 at 2:57 pm
re: my previous post. The wordpress url should read http://my.ip.address/wordpress/wp-admin/wp-login.php*
March 4th, 2013 at 2:38 pm
novice, thanks for your comment. In a default installation of WordPress the file wp-login.php should reside in the root directory. This is where WordPress expects it to be. This configuration then allows you to log in using the following URL syntax: [site]/wp-admin or [site]/wp-login.php .
March 19th, 2013 at 7:43 pm
Sa-weeet. Did the job. Now I can sleep at night again.
March 20th, 2013 at 8:00 am
Ranzabar, awesome! Glad I was able to help you (hopefully) get a good night of sleep.
March 24th, 2013 at 2:28 am
You should really suggest “make config-recursive” instead of “make config” … this usually prevents coming back to find a config screen when you are expecting to find a command prompt :)
March 25th, 2013 at 8:50 pm
been trying to setup this exact configuration for a few days with errors, in the latest FreeBSD available as of 3/23/13 there are issues with “libgpg-error-1.11.tar.bz2″ and “libgcrypt-1.5.0.tar.bz2″ you can manually fetch them from
ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgpg-error/libgpg-error-1.11.tar.bz2
and here
ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.5.0.tar.bz2
and put them into /usr/ports/distfiles
also some issues when installing phpMyAdmin, problems with openjdk6, just find it in
/usr/ports/java/openjdk6
then
make install clean
then return to phpMyAdmin and follow instructions as provided here.
March 26th, 2013 at 7:50 am
Tykog, you are referring to the first beta build of FreeBSD 8.4, in the project’s “legacy” branch, announced 20130323. My post was based on the latest production release of FreeBSD – 9.1-RELEASE. In short, I’m not surprised you ran into some dependency issues. Regarding phpmyadmin, your comment suggests it has a dependency on java, however there is no such dependency. Perhaps though, something else you’re doing requires you to install it…
April 10th, 2013 at 2:01 pm
Like Tykog I had issues installing phpMyAdmin.
I’m running FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE 64-bit as a virtual machine on XenServer 6.1 with the kernel custom configured with:
options IPFILTER
options IPFILTER_LOG
Following your tutorial step-by-step resulted in errors with openjdk6 which were rectified by entering /usr/ports/java/openjdk6/ and running a make install clean
After that, I returned to /usr/ports/databases/phpmyadmin/ and finished the process.
April 24th, 2013 at 9:03 am
recycled, hmmm, strange. I just performed the steps outlined in the post on a fresh install of 9.1-RELEASE (on bare metal) after updating it using freebsd-update. I encountered no such dependency for openjdk6. Running make build-depends-list && make run-depends-list also confirms that it is not a dependency.