Dreamhost Setup. There is no one-click install of Status.Net at DreamHost, so you'll have to either follow general installation guide or do a manual installation.
To do a manual install: 1. Download to your computer. Mac OS X. Requirements 10.6 Snow Leopard Snow Leopard ships with PHP 5.3.0 which appears to include all PHP extension requirements for StatusNet 0.9.x except for tidy (and pcntl, needed for background daemons).
A fallback for tidy is being discussed (bug 1870). You may still need to enable PHP in your Apache configuration if you haven't. INSTALL - mainline in StatusNet. Installation.