Manual talk:Running MediaWiki on macOS

Mathematics
To display nontrivial Mathematical expressions, the system requires some additional software: LaTeX, ImageMagick, and gs. These are not provided in OSX and so many OSX users install these things using the FINK system. That puts them in the directory path /sw instead of /usr. I do not yet know how to tell Apache that such things exist, so on my OSX machine, Mathematics does not work. I'm posting this here in case others have a suggestion for solving this on an OSX/Fink system. 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. (Dan Kelley)

More Mathematics
In the section on Install on FreeBSD it has some hints including how to add to the path for Apache. Some of the things that you install on FreeBSD don't seem to be available on fink, or called something different. I would really like this to work on my OS X box. The setup to this point took about half an hour, but I see that getting a lot longer in order to get Tex working.


 * What seems to be missing? I just tried it on my PowerBook and it seems fine... You'll want the ocaml, tetex, latex, imagemagick, and ghostscript packages.


 * Note that the fink /sw/bin PATH likely won't be available to apache by default, so try adding this to LocalSettings.php to get the shelled-out programs working:

$path = getenv("PATH"); putenv("PATH=$path:/sw/bin");
 * --Brion VIBBER 23:25, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)