5 steps to install XHProf + XHGui on MacOS El Captain

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PHP (Symfony) Profiling with XHProf and XHGui

 

PHPsymfony

 

 

 

 

  1. Verify if PECL is installed. If it is not installed, install PEAR then PECL:

#which pecl

#which pear

#port search –name –line –glob 'php*' |grep -i pear
php5-pear    20161027    php www    Obsolete port, replaced by php55-pear
php53-pear    20161027    php www    Optional port adds the PEAR repository to the include path for php53.
php54-pear    20161027    php www    Optional port adds the PEAR repository to the include path for php54.
php55-pear    20161027    php www    Optional port adds the PEAR repository to the include path for php55.
php56-pear    20161027    php www    Optional port adds the PEAR repository to the include path for php56.
php70-pear    20161027    php www    Optional port adds the PEAR repository to the include path for php70.

#sudo port install php55-pear

No trace of PECL on the system yet so try another PEAR installation:

#sudo curl -o /usr/local/bin/pear http://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar

#sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/pear

#which pecl

It seems that PECL did not install with the methods above so take the third approach:

#sudo php /usr/lib/php/install-pear-nozlib.phar -d /usr/local/lib/php -b /usr/local/bin

#which pecl
/usr/local/bin/pecl

2. Install the modules for PHP starting with XHProf:

#php -v
PHP 5.5.38 (cli)

#port search –name –line –glob 'php*' |grep -i xh
php-xhprof    0.9.4    php devel    A Hierarchical Profiler for PHP
php53-xhprof    0.9.4    php devel    A Hierarchical Profiler for PHP
php54-xhprof    0.9.4    php devel    A Hierarchical Profiler for PHP
php55-xhprof    0.9.4    php devel    A Hierarchical Profiler for PHP
php56-xhprof    0.9.4    php devel    A Hierarchical Profiler for PHP
#sudo port install php55-xhprof

3. Before installing the XHGui module for php, install its requirements: MongoDB and its PHP modules:

#port search –name –line –glob 'php*' |grep -i mongo
php-mongo    1.6.14    php databases devel    Mongo Database Driver
php-mongodb    1.1.9    php databases devel    MongoDB Database Driver
php53-mongo    1.6.14    php databases devel    Mongo Database Driver
php53-mongodb    1.0.1    php databases devel    MongoDB Database Driver
php54-mongo    1.6.14    php databases devel    Mongo Database Driver
php54-mongodb    1.1.9    php databases devel    MongoDB Database Driver
php55-mongo    1.6.14    php databases devel    Mongo Database Driver
php55-mongodb    1.1.9    php databases devel    MongoDB Database Driver
php56-mongo    1.6.14    php databases devel    Mongo Database Driver
php56-mongodb    1.1.9    php databases devel    MongoDB Database Driver
php70-mongodb    1.1.9    php databases devel    MongoDB Database Driver

#sudo port install php55-mongodb
#sudo port install php55-mongo
#ls /opt/local/lib/php55/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20121212/
mongo.so    mongodb.so

On my system the modules were placed in another folder than the one where PHP is configured so a copy is needed:
#sudo cp /opt/local/lib/php55/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20121212/mongo* /usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20121212/
#sudo cp /opt/local/lib/php55/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20121212/xhprof.so /usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20121212/

Continue by enabling the extensions:

#sudo vi /etc/php.ini
extension=mongo.so
extension=mongodb.so
extension=xhprof.so

This command actually installs the MongoDB database. The ones above installed the php driver only :

#brew install mongodb

#sudo chgrp staff /usr/local/var/log/mongodb /usr/local/var/mongodb

#sudo chmod 0775 /usr/local/var/log/mongodb /usr/local/var/mongodb

Add this to /usr/local/etc/mongod.conf:

processManagement:
fork: true

#mongod –config /usr/local/etc/mongod.conf

 

Optional, use a tool to install Pref into System Preferences in order to start mongodb

#cd <downloads>
#wget https://github.com/remysaissy/mongodb-macosx-prefspane/raw/master/download/MongoDB.prefPane.zip
#unzip MongoDB.prefPane.zip
double-click on MongoDB.prefPane to install it and launch it

4. Install XHGui and configure it as a Virtual Server:

#cd <some directory for xhgui>
#git clone https://github.com/perftools/xhgui.git
#cd xhgui/
#chmod 0777 cache/
#php install.php

#sudo vi /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot "/Sites/xhgui/webroot"
ServerName xhgui.lh
ServerAlias www.xhgui.lh
ErrorLog "/private/var/log/apache2/xhgui.lh-error_log"
CustomLog "/private/var/log/apache2/xhgui.lh-access_log" common
</VirtualHost>

#sudo vi /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1       xhgui.lh www.xhgui.lh

#sudo apachectl restart

Optional, but recommended: Add indexes to MongoDB to improve performance. (https://github.com/perftools/xhgui)

# mongo
use xhprof
db.results.ensureIndex( { 'meta.SERVER.REQUEST_TIME' : -1 } )
db.results.ensureIndex( { 'profile.main().wt' : -1 } )
db.results.ensureIndex( { 'profile.main().mu' : -1 } )
db.results.ensureIndex( { 'profile.main().cpu' : -1 } )
db.results.ensureIndex( { 'meta.url' : 1 } )
exit

5. Add this to VirtualHost of the site needing profiling (/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf):

php_admin_value auto_prepend_file "/Sites/xhgui/external/header.php"

That's it. See it in browser:

http://www.xhgui.lh/

xhgui xhprof

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