I just went to do some work on a Wordpress theme for my girltrond and discovered that upgrading to Leopard has broken my MAMP setup.  Here is a quick rundown on what I’ve done to fix it.  First of all, trying to visit pages under my user account’s Sites folder left me with a HTTP 403 Forbidden error. In order to fix this I follwed the instructions on Apple’s support site.

Next, to get PHP running.  I was using entropy to get PHP5 with Tiger, however it appears that Leopard includes a PHP5 install by default.  To enable it, we need to edit Apache’s configuration file (httpd.conf) which you can do with the following command in Terminal (under Utilities):

sudo nano /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

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