#Mamp pro mac os sierra mac os x#

I went with XAMPP in the end because I needed the dba extension. Unlike XAMPP, MAMP works without administrator privileges. But for a development system that doesnвЂ™t count much. On the other hand MAMP looks a little more mac-like and has a Dashboard Widget. XAMPP gets updated more regularly and is generally more up to date. Neither touch your default OS X Apache/PHP! You can just try them both out and remove them afterwards by just deleting their folders. PS: Eventually I would use the default installation of Apache and PHP, and install a binary package of MySQL but time for development is an essence and I donвЂ™t have time to familiarize myself with Mac OS X. Would MAMP or XAMPP modify the existing Apache and PHP installation? Any comments on how I should proceed?

#Mamp pro mac os sierra mac os x#

As far as I know, Mac OS X comes with Apache2 and PHP5. Does anybody have any suggestions? The Pro and Cons I suppose. The question is whether I should go with MAMP or XAMPP. However, I am not quite ready to be playing around with the system at this point so having an external package would be a nice temporary solution I think. Since Mac OS X is based on Unix, I was thinking on activating/installing all the necessary stuff as I would normally do on Linux. I am used to using XAMPP as my local development server on XP. I just bought a new MacBook Pro which comes with Snow Leopard 10.6.2 (Mac OS X 10.6.2).