Installation gets very close

Followed all instructions and tips and have repeated many times looking for the one thing I’m not getting right. Trying to install to Mac OSX 10.12.2. Clues from the logs include “Could not find custom/install/install_hooks.php” and failure to find tables like aow_workflow. 7 tables are create, tho. I have followed the instructions on setting permissions. Only one that needs tweak for OSx is “chgrp -R ApacheGroup .”

Help appreciated. Looking forward to using the product as soon as I can get it working. Thanks.