Macs tend to be very reliable and make great servers, and now that Apple is phasing out OS X Server, we need to look at alternatives. For serving websites and web development, Macs can run Apache web server, MySQL database engine, along with PHP, Perl, and Python – thus the acronym MAMP for Mac, Apache, […]
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In my previous two articles, we looked at how to get Apache Web Sharing and PHP up and running in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion via some quick trips to the Terminal. While Apache and PHP are a powerful duo indeed, with their ability to serve up web pages and dynamically script the creation of web […]
Last time, we looked at how to use the Terminal to start and stop the Apache web server that comes bundled with OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion now that Apple has removed its checkbox from the Sharing pane in System Preferences. This is fine and dandy for all your static HTML files, but if you are going […]
