What is the easiest way to have a local LAMP installation for web development on mac OS X?

Question

I\'m new to mac os x. In the Windows XP world, there are packages available, like easyPHP, wampserver, uniformserver, that enable you to have a local webserver complete with php

Answer 1

Mac OS X is -- essentially -- Linux.

Mac OS X already contains Apache. Turn on file sharing and you'll turn on Apache.

You'll need to download and install MySQL for Mac OS X. http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.1.html

You'll need to edit the httpd.conf to enable mod_apache.