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

XAMPP is also an excellent choice

Answer 2

Question : What means LAMP ?

Answer : Linux Apache MySQL PHP

Q: and if this was running on a Mac ?

A : try MAMP

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

Five years later, i believe this question and existing answers still reading by some newcomers.

Personally, i strongly recommend using Homebrew to have a perfect development environment on mac os x. Not only PHP, homebrew opens wide all the doors to the open source toolkit/library/application heaven.

Here is my another answer related with this subject.

Answer 5

http://foundationphp.com/tutorials/php_leopard.php

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mac-os-x-installation.html

Answer 6

OS X comes with php and apache installed already. It doesn't have mysql installed by default, but you can easily download the Mac OS X version from the mysql website in either the tarball version or a package version.