Re: Local Web Development

2010-06-08 Thread Dónal Fitzpatrick
Hello Jeff, Apologies for the delay in chipping in on this thread but we've had a public holiday over here. I raised this very issue a few weeks ago over on the mv-dev list and got some extremely helpful replies (as ever). My suggestion would be that you find and download MAMP. This is a

Local Web Development

2010-06-04 Thread Jeff Berwick
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

Re: Local Web Development

2010-06-04 Thread Ryan Mann
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

Re: Local Web Development

2010-06-04 Thread Jeff Berwick
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

Re: Local Web Development

2010-06-04 Thread Ryan Mann
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

Re: Local Web Development

2010-06-04 Thread Jeff Berwick
Okay, Have found a resource on the internet advising me to make some changes to my Apache2 configuration file. So, I know where the file is: /etc/apache2/httpd.conf and can get to it through terminal but, I need to edit it and can't get to this location with Textedit. Can anybody advise me