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firewall · Joined: 02 Nov 2006 Posts: 3

http://www.mamp.info

Downloaded, installed, and had everything up and running within minutes. I'm impressed. Anyone else have feedback / experience with it?

oldblueday · Joined: 03 Feb 2007 Posts: 7

Just downloaded it today. Took me a week to install php5, then another week to get MySQL up and running... and then I could never get them talking to each other.

Installed MAMP and it got going instantly. And there's a dashboard widget to turn things on. Love it. I'm with you.

liyanage · Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 12:38 Post subject:

I haven't used it myself but I have heard good things about it in the past few months.

If users agree that it works well, then I'll add a link to it from my main PHP page. What is the consensus? Smile

I am also wondering if this is a solution for people running older versions of Mac OS X, which I do not support. Does anyone know if this works on Panther / Panther Server?

gracion · Joined: 17 Feb 2007 Posts: 3 Location: Ashland, Oregon, US

Living-e, the MAMP company, had a full booth at Macworld expo and seemed very serious and competent. Haven't tried it, but posted requirements say OS X 10.3, so it should work there.

Note that the free version of MAMP is intended for development, not public production servers. I seem to remember hearing it runs as the logged in user. The commercial version, MAMP PRO ($US 49) seems to support production servers.

oldblueday · Joined: 03 Feb 2007 Posts: 7

I just installed it and MAMP works like a champ. I'm able to create and test PHP pages as well as MySQL. It was very easy.

liyanage · Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 11:45 Post subject:

Sounds good, so I just added a link to this thread to my main PHP page.

Post additional hints and experiences here...

f3ze · Joined: 21 Aug 2007 Posts: 3

just chucking in my thoughts too, I tried mucking around with installing everything separate with php4 then found marcs excellent site. then for some reason with php5 package, couldnt get it working, a friend suggested mamp, and it works immediately. not only that but comes complete with phpmyadmin (another failed attempt to install that separate myself there), mysql, and both php4 and 5 (which you can switch between either from the widget or from the program window).
very easy, has my vote!
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ddffee1 · Joined: 08 May 2008 Posts: 1

+1 It very easy and useful.

irve · Joined: 25 Aug 2008 Posts: 2

MAMP is running complete nice and ok with the infophp() but ::

when I try a ordinary .php page in the browser it is not recognized. Firefox ask if it should be saved and Safari displays the code. Isn't that funny??

What shall I do to make the browser recognize my own php pages?

I have changed the httpd.conf file uncommenting LoadModule php4_module libexec/httpd/libphp4.so and AddModule mod_php4.c

I am about to give up, very thankful for all help

al3 · Joined: 06 Sep 2006 Posts: 10

Are you using the URL:

http://localhost:8888/YourPHPscript.php

Al

irve · Joined: 25 Aug 2008 Posts: 2

Thanks, it works now!

I didn't find this string localhost:8888/mypage.php in instructions.

Allthough very nice, no need for separate installations of Appache and PHP.

-=allexiss=- · Joined: 21 Sep 2008 Posts: 1

I to would be very interested in this. I would purchase the pro version if it had FreeTDS included.

alpha2zee · Joined: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 29

The problem, only for some, with both MAMP and XAMPP [yes, there is a version available for Mac OS] is that the installation is always in to the /Applications directory and that starting the servers requires administrator privileges. This prevents standard, non-admin users from doing web development.

steffann1 · Joined: 29 Oct 2008 Posts: 3

Thanks for that Joe34.
Good luck with it.
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CharlieDancey · Joined: 26 Jan 2009 Posts: 1 Location: Glastonbury, England

I also downloaded MAMP and installed it in minutes with no problems.

For those who have not tried it (and at the risk of telling you what you may already know)...

MAMP installs as an application, and is completely independent of any existing PHP/MySQL/Apache setup on your machine. Thus you do not have to worry about messing up your existing httpd conf, MySQL socket, or PHP version - which I can tell you from experience is a very good thing. All of MAMP's tricky bits live inside its own application folder.

This means that

1: You can mess around to your heart's content in MAMP without breaking anything.

2: While you are doing this, any existing web services remain intact.

Oh, and you can turn it off any time you like.

Brilliant software.