Not being a good Mac user yet, I don't know how you'd check if httpd or apache were running, or how you make them run.
open a browser and type localhost, or 127.0.0.0 which is the same thing. See what if anything, comes back. If you get 404 page not found, then you don't have any kind of web service running. It's something that would need a lot of set up, certainly some setup for security's sake. I'd presume the Mail function would be available to PHP scripts, I have been known to write a simple form in a small .html file, which points back to a not very complicated .php file to process it, which submits contents of the fields to the mail function; my simplest and quickest way to get an email out without fuss. I dare say a spammer could use an iteration loop to do it on mass. But there's some useful basic stuff one can scribble in PHP you could operate via local web pages. With sql running, you have a great database system to do things with. Could place to test file sets before uploading to your public hosting platform or service. This is what I used XAMPP for these past years. That was the Win version. For stuff like this, I could really like Mac, if I could get to really like its Editr. RobH. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dionipher Presas Herrera" <dionip...@gmail.com> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 8:22 PM Subject: Re: MAMP what? is php available on my mac? where can i find it? Il giorno 02/dic/2014, alle ore 05:47 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> ha scritto: > Just curious why you need MAMP when OSX already has Apache and PHP > installed? Seems like it would be less work to just install MySQL on top > of the existing stuff. > > CB > > On 11/30/14, 4:07 AM, BobH. wrote: >> This sounds like a browser setting that prepends, by assumption, that all >> links start with www. I hate that and turned it off; that should fix >> it. >> >> A page with a link like that is erronious. Glad to see someone else using >> that product, I used a variant on XP for years. >> >> RobH. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Jeff Berwick" <j...@berwick.name> >> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >> Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2014 12:10 AM >> Subject: MAMP >> >> >> Hi there, >> >> I was having some problems with my installation of MAMP, so I have >> removed >> it and downloaded the most recent version and installed it. >> >> I am unable to get to the default web location, I just get the main start >> page. When I click on the "My Website" link, I get a message that Safari >> can't find www.localhost - Why would it be looking for www.localhost >> instead >> of localhost and how can I change/fix this? >> >> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. >> >> Tia, >> Jeff >> > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
