Installing Passenger on OS X 10.4

Getting Passenger (mod_rails) working on OS X 10.4 wasn't as simple as the screen cast or manual made it out to be. :( That's ok though. I dug into the recesses of my gray matter and got it to work.

The manual and even the install script eventually helped with part of it which was the custom install of Apache. I don't use the default Apache install on OS X and instead compile my own software. By setting a couple environment variables I was able to help Passengers install script find the right apache:

>> export APXS2=/path/to/bin/apxs

While the install script liked this and helped get it going it eventally coughed up during compile of the module. I noticed it was mentioning an invalid function used when MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET was set to 10.1. Wait...I'm on 10.4 so I set this env variable to 10.4:

>> export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.4

Voila! It works! Thanks for mod_rails Phusion guys!