MAMP

How does one set up sub domains with the apache that Mac OsX comes with? EDIT: Or (Preferably) with MAMP?

I believe it used to say this on the MAMP website but it doesn't say that anymore that I can see. They might have changed it since I last used it, and perhaps it does now start automatically. ...

Can you elaborate on your comments re MAMP? .... testing vs production. I'm using it on my laptop to develop sites and it's a great solution. The app lets you turn Apache or Mysql or both on/off at any time

MAMP is really only for testing purposes not really for production use. You have to have the application open all the time it seems otherwise MySQL doesn't work from what I remember. The easiest thing to do is go here for php http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/php/ Download MySQL from mysql.com and the configuration isn't really any different than it used to be. ...

it doesn't get easier or better than this: http://www.mamp.info/en/index.php

friendly. The MAMP MySQL and PORT settings are all defined in your MAMP configuration, which you can see when you launch MAMP. I believe it is like 8888 or something like that. ...

Try MAMP

I would get PHP from Mark Liyanage's page: www.entropy.ch I would get mySQL from mySQL's site: www.mysql.com Ruby on Rails from here: http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoInstallOnOSXTiger#3 Apache comes built-into Mac OS X already. From there, it's a simple matter of installing each package and configuring them properly. To walk you through the entire...

mysql, I first tried to use the XAMMP package which I had a few problems with and now use MAMP which works fine. ...

I have a g5xserver and a g3 server running MAMP as the webserver. ...