I know that PHP and perl are installed on my macbook and Imac.  I don't 
remember if you have to install the Xcode tools to get those or if they are 
installed with the standard Leopard install.

On Jun 4, 2010, at 7:37 PM, 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
>>> 
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