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How To Set Up a Local Web Server on Your Mac Using MAMP

Posted by dougr | Posted in Apache, Mac, MySQL, PHP | Posted on 19-07-2009

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MAMP, which is an acronym for Mac Apache MySQL PHP, is an application which sets up a local Web server development environment in a matter of minutes.  It includes support for all of the servers listed as part of its name (support for SQLite is also included).

MAMP provides three basic necessities for any Web application; being a Web server, a database server, and a Web application server – Apache, MySQL, and PHP respectively.  Although Apple ships Mac computers with these three servers pre-installed, setup and configuration is not abstracted into a configuration interface as provided by MAMP.

MAMP installation is simple, lets go through the process together.

See the rest of my article on Lost In Technology.

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