wow, OS X

OS X really makes setting up a LAMP service dead easy. I need to do some offline dev (and lets face it, I’m very sick of uploading over slow connections).

Apache and PHP are installed out of the box. Yep – installed *by default* on everyone’s OS X install, not just developers. This is used for the web-sharing feature.

But you have to change one line in Apache to enable the PHP module. This doc was useful (I used vi for everything though, of course). Or the apple docs which make it look harder than it actually is.

Installing MySQL is as simple as downloading the DMG from MySQL.com and running the installer.

And that is is. No ./configure, no make, no make install. Just tweak some settings, and run an installer.

Love it!