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Ruby, Rails on Mac OS X

Having got MySQL (MySQL Community Edition — Database Server and Client: Mac OS X 10.4 (PowerPC) Standard, v5.0.22) running correctly with Webmin on Mac OS X the next step seemed to be to get Ruby on Rails running. I’m already working through an installation on RedHat 9 though with varying degrees of success. Having installed [...]

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Mon, June 5 2006 » MAMP » 1 Comment

MySQL on a Mac – not so simple

Next steps, install MySQL on the Mac. There’s a specific installer for OS X 10.4.x for x86 machines on the MySQL site. If it works it should work directly with Webmin too. But that would be too easy. Despite being able to ‘start’ the server from the command line, Webmin reported: “The MySQL client program [...]

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Wed, March 29 2006 » MAMP » 1 Comment

Webmin under MAMP

I meant to do this a while ago and got distracted by setting up qmail on another server. Anyway, downloads of the latest version of Webmin and the installation instructions are all on the same page of the Webmin website and are compatible with Mac OS X, and once the 8.6Mb download is complete, following [...]

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Tue, March 21 2006 » MAMP » No Comments

PHP for Mac OSX – part 2

Following on from the instructions to set up PHP on Apache, targeting the webserver correctly is greatly helped by reading info.php correctly. The key to where to place documents is the _SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] variable which points to /Library/WebServer/Documents Moving the folder from /~user to the document root immediately brings the right result. A PHP website is [...]

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Wed, January 11 2006 » MAMP » No Comments

MAMP?

Apparently installing Apache, MySQL and PHP on a Mac is called MAMP, so says this entry by zeroK I found through a Technorati search. Excitingly this site ranks 1,062,464th on the Technorati listings – time to roll out some keywords.

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Mon, January 9 2006 » MAMP » 1 Comment

PHP for Mac OSX

To save much time uploading files to a server to test it is possible to run Apache webserver directly from your Mac. There are notes on how to do this on the Apple Developer website which suggests downloading from the PHP website. Their first option might be favourable which is to use a simple installation [...]

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Mon, January 9 2006 » MAMP » No Comments