Installation instructions (Mac OS X)

1. Download the XAMPP installer for Mac OS X from http://sourceforge.net/projects/xampp/ and run it. Follow the instructions until the setup is complete. Once completed it will automatically run Apache and open the web server test page.

2. Open /Applications/XAMPP/etc/php.ini and remove the leading semi-colon from the line reading ;extension=php_openssl.dll, then save the file.

3. Run /Applications/XAMPP/manager-osx.app, go to the Manage Servers tab, select Apache and click Restart.

4. Download and install Git from http://git-scm.com/downloads/. You may have to Ctrl-right-click (hold the Ctrl key while right-clicking) the file and select Open in order to be able to install it.

5. Open a terminal and run the following commands one by one:

cd /Applications/XAMPP/htdocs
git clone git://github.com/Jalle19/xbmc-video-server.git
cd xbmc-video-server
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php -d detect_unicode=Off
php -d detect_unicode=Off composer.phar install
php ./src/protected/yiic.php createinitialdatabase
php ./src/protected/yiic.php setpermissions

Updating on Mac OS X

Open a terminal and run the following commands:

cd /Applications/XAMPP/htdocs/xbmc-video-server
git pull
php -d detect_unicode=Off composer.phar install
php ./src/protected/yiic.php migrate --interactive=0