MAMP/LAMP/etc...help?

[fig]

Ok devs, I've been generally setting up my WordPress sites on the server then redeploying them to the ACTUAL server when the site goes live and...yeah, that's just a terrible way to do it.

From my looking around and a discussion or two on here it sounds like installing MAMP on my home machine and developing there is the best way to go, unless there's some better options I don't know about? Any recommendations or advice greatly appreciated, thanks.

[jared_kipe]

What kind of recommendations are you looking for? If you know how to setup a linux server for deploying MySQL/PHP applications, then MAMP is going to be very easy.

General advice. Use GIT to manage your local codebase so that when you want to deploy, all you have to do is push to the actual server.

[fig]

Thanks, and as I don't know the first thing about setting up a server I'm looking for whatever sort of advice I can get.

I'm a designer with some minimal backend skills (a bit of jQuery and php manipulation with WordPress) so anything server related is pretty new to me, I do one-click installs for my typical WordPress sites. From what I've found in some searching MAMP or something similar is my best option for hosting my WordPress site on my box for development, but that pretty much sums up my knowledge on the subject

[onerob]

You might want to have a look at these products too. I can't vouch for them because I've stuck to using MAMP out of laziness.

http://bitnami.org/stacks
http://www.ampps.com/downloads

[fig]

Sounds like MAMP is at least effective then, good to know. Thanks.

[onerob]

It does the job and is easy to use but I'm getting annoyed by having to type in my admin password every time I start or stop the servers.

[SrWebDeveloper]

Originally Posted by onerob

It does the job and is easy to use but I'm getting annoyed by having to type in my admin password every time I start or stop the servers.

http://www.46palermo.com/blog/run-ma...word-easy-way/

That's due to lack of Keychain support. Read the blog and also all the comments in that blog, some folks posted better solutions than the original blogger, i.e. Justin Sternberger's rather cool solution.

[marsmissions]

Originally Posted by SrWebDeveloper

http://www.46palermo.com/blog/run-ma...word-easy-way/

That's due to lack of Keychain support. Read the blog and also all the comments in that blog, some folks posted better solutions than the original blogger, i.e. Justin Sternberger's rather cool solution.

Or just don't run it on port 80. 8080 shouldn't require a password and the change won't matter.

[onerob]

I prefer to use port 80, so I've adapted some of the code from the link above and cobbled together this applescript which launches the MAMP app and then starts Apache and MySQL. If the script is run again after MAMP has been loaded, it stops the server and quits the app.

For my use I've exported it from the AppleScript editor as an application.

You must also have used Keychain Access to add an item named MAMP to the login keychain with your admin username and password, as mentioned in the article.

set theUserName to do shell script ("security  find-generic-password -gl MAMP | grep \"acct\" | cut -c 19-99 | sed 's/\"//g'")
set thePassword to do shell script ("security 2>&1 >/dev/null find-generic-password -gl MAMP | cut -c 11-99 | sed 's/\"//g'")

tell application "System Events"
	if (exists (process "MAMP")) then
		
		do shell script "/Applications/MAMP/bin/stopApache.sh &" password thePassword user name theUserName with administrator privileges
		do shell script "/Applications/MAMP/bin/stopMysql.sh > /dev/null 2>&1"
		
		tell application "MAMP" to quit
		
	else
		
		tell application "MAMP" to activate
		set frontmost of process "MAMP" to true
		
		do shell script "/Applications/MAMP/bin/startApache.sh &" password thePassword user name theUserName with administrator privileges
		do shell script "/Applications/MAMP/bin/startMysql.sh > /dev/null 2>&1"
		
	end if
end tell

[DelisleBA.info]

fig,

This is how I got WordPress to run on my MBP with 10.8.

http://youtu.be/3fBR7D_5wGo

[iPaintCode]

I prefer using homebrew for my local dev for PHP5.4, MySQL5.6.1 and a few other handful of awesome tool. I just use Apples built in Apache as it does what I need. The one GUI I do use is called VirtualHostX, but that's mostly due to hating to deal with my vhost and host files.

You can use VHX with mamp to if that is your preference. Far as WP local I'd recommend setting up a vhost as dealing with http://localhost/~User will cause issues at some. The other app I use when dealing with MySQL is Sequel Pro. Good luck!

[fig]

Originally Posted by DelisleBA.info

fig,

This is how I got WordPress to run on my MBP with 10.8.

http://youtu.be/3fBR7D_5wGo

Super helpful, thanks.

and I'll check out homebrew too, appreciate the recommendation.