April 2011

Setting up Apache MySQL and PHP on OS X without using MAMP

For a long time I've been using MAMP to manage my local dev environment, but over the past few days I've been cleaning up my system and un-installing anything I don't really need.

I checked this morning and found that OS X has a newer version of Apache than my install of MAMP did, so seemed a prime target to cull from my machine.

Here are the steps I took: