MAMP, XAMPP - Alternatives

[618537]

Does anyone know of any packages like MAMP and XAMPP which are being actively maintained? Both of the aforementioned are a bit outdated now on their software releases.

I was running a dev environment within a Windows VMWare VM but I'm experiencing lock ups due to a lack of RAM on occasions (maxing out to 8GB).

If I can run something on OS X directly that'd be ideal - read some criticism over using the inbuilt PHP, etc though. Recommendations?

 

[aarond12]

You can install the separate parts of MAMP... well... separately.

Install the latest version of MySQL. Latest PHP. Latest Apache.

There is no reason you have to use a all-in-one package.

 

[8.33]

Virtual Box is really good for virtualisation and it lets you run virtualboxheadless so that you don't have to run a gui - this coupled with Ubuntu server (or other of your choice) has worked well for me.

 

[Tholian]

Try this:

http://alternativeto.net/software/mamp/

Good Luck

 

[618537]

Have spent a little while compiling a MacPorts Apache/PHP/MySQL environment.

Used http://echodittolabs.org/blog/2011/10/os-x-107-lion-development-macports as a guide.

Only points to note which differ or caused issues for me:

1) Where create_tables.sql is mentioned the directory is now /examples/ and not /scripts/
2) Machine hostname should be in /etc/hosts (pointing to 127.0.0.1).

 

[Negritude]

Does anyone know of any packages like MAMP and XAMPP which are being actively maintained?...Recommendations?

BitNami MAMP Stack
http://bitnami.org/stack/mampstack

Softaculous AMPPS Stack
http://www.ampps.com