Automatically start Xampp at login
I like xampp a lot, because it's a complete package. I used to configure the whole thing myself on the Mac, but it took a lot of time. Xampp, on the other hand, is just so easy to configure and install. The biggest problem I had was that Xampp has to be started manually, and this is bad because I use my Mac mini as a demo server to show my work to customers before going live. If there is a power failure and I am not around, the server won't start. After some head scratching, obfuscated further by reading too much on the net, I found an obvious and simple solution. All I needed to do was to write this very simple Applescript: do shell script "sudo /Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/mampp start" password "YOUR ADMIN PWD...
published on Wednesday, the 18. June 2008, macosxhints
MAMP, MAMP Pro 1.6 released
Living-e has released MAMP and MAMP Pro 1.6. MAMP is a free utility eases the process of installing and running the Apache Web server, PHP, and MySQL on Mac OS X systems; the Pro version is priced at $50, and includes MAMP while also allowing users to create local as well as remote tests, and features easier configuration of MySQL. Version 1.6 incl...
published on Tuesday, the 8. May 2007, macintosh-news-network