Installing Apache2, PHP5, and MySQL5 using PortAuthority

[markd at macports.org]

Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> writes:
>I have no information about PortAuthority. I assume it's supposed to  
>be able to do every MacPorts command you can do from the command  
>line, but I've never used it and you'll have to consult its  
>documentation or its author if you have questions about it.
>
>What you want is easy to do on the command line.
>
>Do you want to run a MySQL 5 server on your iBook, or just get PHP 5  
>compiled with the MySQL 5 libraries so that you can connect to  
>another MySQL 5 server running somewhere?
>
>I assume you want to run a server yourself. To do so:
>
>sudo port install mysql5 +server
>
>(If you did not want a MySQL 5 server of your own, you can omit  
>"+server".)
>
>To get PHP 5 with MySQL 5 support and the Apache 2 libphp5.so module,  
>and get the apache2 port installed as well:
>
>sudo port install php5 +apache2 +mysql5
>
>To discover what variants a port has which might be interesting to  
>you, do e.g.:
>
>port variants php5

But the ui_msgs for php5 are still not right. 
http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/12108

So you might want to use these instructions in this NeDi howto. 
http://homepage.mac.com/duling/halfdozen/NeDi-Howto.html

Mark