OK.
I'm new to Mac-OS X (oh!!! yes!!! i'm new!!! =)...sorry )))
Ok. While i was on WinXP - i use XAMPP and was lucky. Now (xampp have MacOS version but... it's very young) i need something like this one.
What is this? Its "easy-to-setup" Apache+PHP+MySQL pack. Yes, i can setup it manually (or can't? not sure) but i'm lazy AND not very familiar with *nix world. So i need something like xampp (http://www.apachefriends.org)
Thanks for your help =)
what osx version do you have? i never actually used the built-in webserver but i'm sure osx 10.4 has php and i know for a fact it has apache. just download mysql and install it and it'll be all set up.
EDIT: sorry i forgot to say how to use it. you start it in sharing preferences and the root web directory is in /Library/WebServer/Documents and it already has the home directory thing enabled. just put html files in either the root dir or in your Sites directory (in your home directory) and it looks like it doesn't have php enabled by default so i guess you just need to edit the /etc/httpd/httpd.conf file (use the terminal as it's not very hard to do it with textedit.
cd /etc/httpc
nano httpd.conf
) and just uncomment everything that has the phrase php in it. control+w to find in nano and i mean control not command.
I'd recommend using Fink (fink.sf.net) as they have apache, php, mysql and a whole host of other packages too.
phpmac.com is also helpful.
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