how to install a web Server on Macintosh ?

[sepu]

Hey guys this is a really quick question ....
Can anyone point me out to any tutorials or anything that tell you how to install a web server. Can you recommend any specif ?
I've have web server but is on my PC I used Wamp5 that brings all included.


Thanks.

 

[mnkeybsness]

OS X has Apache built-in. You don't need to install anything if you want to serve plain HTML pages.

There are two places to do this:
The first will be accessed via http://localhost/

/Library/WebServer/Documents/

or from http://localhost/~username/

~/Sites/

in order to use the second, you must turn on personal web sharing in the system preferences sharing dialog.

 

[sepu]

Thanks for the quick response ....

didnt know that ... I will be dealing with PHP and Ruby on rails, MySQL, etc ... Im bringing all my development from my PC to my Mac .... so would I be able to run all that with this APache built on my Mac ? Do I need any extras ?

Thanks.

 

[zarathustra]

You will need to install MySQL and PHP. It's very easy if you use these installers from Entropy:

http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/

Super easy to do. My testing server is an old PM G4 running OS X 10.4 MySQL and PHP.

 

[mnkeybsness]

For Ruby on Rails, I definitely recommend looking into using MacPorts (formerly DarwinPorts). There are a lot of tutorials found through google on getting it set up. Search "install ruby on rails os x macports"

 

[SC68Cal]

PHP is included with the Apache server on OS X, built in. You just need to enable it.

 

[sepu]

Thanks guys for all the inputs!

 

[barrysfarm]

This is the best tutorial i've found for installing ruby on rails locally.

Also, if you want to update php here are some good packages that might make life easier.

 

[cookie1105]

MAMP works best for me.

 

[SC68Cal]

MAMP works best for me.

It sells you things you already have.

 

[sepu]

hey SC68Cal .... you said "PHP is included with the Apache server on OS X, built in. You just need to enable it."

where do I enabled it ?

Thanks.

 

[cookie1105]

^^That's why mamp. True, you already have all of these things installed on a mac SC68Cal, but it's easier to just install something like mamp if you're not comfortable with terminal. BTW OP, here are the instructions for enabling php on osx.

 

[SC68Cal]

if you're not comfortable with terminal

Get comfortable with it, this is a UNIX-like operating system. It is to your advantage.

You can paper-over MySQL and PHP with GUIs up to a
certain point.

Anyone worth their salt should know how to use terminal and also know how to code raw SQL queries, as well as PHP.