Hello Jeff, Apologies for the delay in chipping in on this thread but we've had a public holiday over here.
I raised this very issue a few weeks ago over on the mv-dev list and got some extremely helpful replies (as ever). My suggestion would be that you find and download MAMP. This is a local dev setup for mac. You get a new install of MySQL, Apache and PHP. The PHP which comes with MAMP seems to be a more complete install. One thing to note is that the MAMP install listens on non-standard ports. While this can be changed, I probably wouldn't recommend it. Cheers Dónal On 5 Jun 2010, at 00:37, Jeff Berwick wrote: > Okay, > > This is a good start. Typing in the IP address of my computer with a > ~username at the end gets me to a test page. The page is held in the sites > folder of your user folder. > > Anybody know anything about whether PHP, Perl and MySQL can be installed and > configured to work with the apparently preloaded Apache server? > > Thx, > Jeff > > On 2010-06-04, at 7:23 PM, Ryan Mann wrote: > >> You should probably find that in sharing in System preferences. There is a >> table with a list of services that you can check or uncheck to turn on or >> off. One of them is web sharing or something like that. Check the checkbox >> to turn that on. After that, Apache will run on port 80, so you probably >> should be able to type http://localhost into Safari. I'm not sure what >> directory you put your HTML files in. >> >> On Jun 4, 2010, at 7:04 PM, Jeff Berwick wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I am relatively new to the Mac so am not sure if/how I can do this. >>> >>> On my old Windows machine, I was able to set up a local copy of Apache, >>> PHP, PERL and MySQL so I could create my websites locally and test them >>> before going live. >>> >>> I assume this can be done on the Mac since it is built on the Unix >>> platform. Can anybody assist me with how I would go about setting these >>> programs up and accessing my localhost? >>> >>> Thx, >>> Jeff >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
