MAMP

I love my MacBook Pro, but getting Apache, PHP and MySQL to work on it has been a nightmare. I finally downloaded MAMP, which has been another nightmare. I beat my brains out making my virtual hosts work, only to discover that they were associated with my default Apache installation, which was still running. Anyway, I've now learned how to shut down Apache #1, and I assume...

code that talks to my MAMP mysql database. ...

nuke under MAMP and after instaling nuke in htdocs folder and editing the nukes config. ...

Darren, The links unfortunately go back to the homepage when I click on them. I will try mamp. Do you know how I should go about "uninstalling" mysql & php that I currently have? Should I just delete the mysql folders? Thanks, David

That said, in the end I simply downloaded MAMP and used that. Much easier. ...

Dear All, I am very new to PHP, SQL or web server stuff. I am test running drupal on my laptop and I came across some problem that I need to add uploadprogress extension to the setup. This is the error msg I got when "make": /Desktop/uploadprogress-1.0.0/uploadprogress-1.0.0/uploadprogress.c: In function 'uploadprogress_php_rfc1867_file':...

mysql version running on that default port. You will need to disable this before using MAMP one. ...

If you use MAMP, the OS X Server config may not be used, depending on how you have it configured. I use the standard MySQL OS X package with Entropy PHP and OS X Server to control the various dynamic/static websites hosted. We can take this offline if you want help, Im no expert can will provide help where I can (in GUI) :) Ed

Yea, I need to get my OS X Server properly configured. That's why I was hoping to get somewhere with the Alias directive - my hope was to be able to maintain MAMP (which I only use for development and testing - then transfer everything to someone's hosted website) while exploring the OS X server - Ironically, I am trying to figure out my system and server configurations more...

Hi No problem :) My experience with MAMP is that its not really suited for production use unless you get MAMP pro (are you using pro?) MAMP actually say this on their website. Personally I prefer to use OS X Server, but thats my preference. Ed