Development Server on OSX

[Uplift]

Has anyone had first hand experience with the various methods of running a development server on the mac?

Ideally i need PHP, MySQL and Apache.. latest versions such as php 5.4. phpMyAdmin would be a bonus.

Afaik, there are 3 options:

MAMP - Seems the easiest solution, but is only PHP 5.3 and development seems to have slowed? last release August 2011.

XAMPP - Reported problems with htaccess and file permissions

OSX - I believe everything can be baked right in to OSX but tutorials seem old and are running on something called MacPorts? How has this developed, is it easy to maintain?

Have i missed anything?

 

[618537]

Asked pretty much the same question myself the other day:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1392654/

MAMP looks dead IMHO and XAMPP I'm not keen on.

Actually in the process of installing MacPorts now and seeing how that goes...

 

[Uplift]

Ah sorry i missed that, let me know how you get on.

I found this for simple installation of PHP5.4

http://php-osx.liip.ch

I guess then it's just a case of installing MySQL?

 

[618537]

@uplift: See https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=15128873#post15128873

 

[eddyg]

You may find it easier to run a VM with Linux in it.