Magento 2 Setup in MacOSX

In this tutorial we will explain you can set up Magento 2 using MacOS X El Capitan . Well, it’s fairly easy but still, there are a few tweaks which need to be sorted out.

As I am using MAMP basic with PHP7 support so almost all the dependencies of the like curl mcrypt and others which you will find during the setup of php 5.x.x.

As MAMP comes with MySQL 5.5 so you need to upgrade it to 5.6.

There are two ways to install Magento 2 on macOS.

Using composer

Using file archive

In this tutorial, we will download the setup from the Magento site and will extract it under htdocs folder under Application/MAMP as per the screenshot

Now simply go to the browser and set up the database and setup configuration and you are done.

Well if you think all is done actually it’s not this is just a start. Now suppose you are going to start a module development using the same platform setup and you run the following command. As I run the Magento 2 compilation command it generates the following error:

Use of undefined constant MCRYPT_BLOWFISH

It should not be there as php7 already supports that well it’s been quite a pain for me but finally, I got the issues when I typed the command

php-v I came to know that the php version is still displaying 5.x.x WTH why it’s there as my MAMP setup is still php7

So what I did create a .bash_profile under my home directory and added the path of php7 as below:

export PATH=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php7.0.0/bin:$PATH

Make sure after saving the file you execute the “source .bash_profile” command and make sure you are not getting an error.

Well now your Mcrypt issues must be solved.

Now I execute again the command “php bin/magento setup:di:compile” again this time got the

This issue was because of less memory allocation in the php.ini file which you can overcome by simply running through the command line.

“php -dmemory_limit=1G bin/magento setup:di:compile” but it’s a temporary solution you can edit it in php.ini and it will work perfectly ok.

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