Open the Terminal environment from the Utilities ( Go > Utilities from top menu and then select Terminal). You will need root access in order to install and configure the components. Unlike Windows, OS X already includes the Apache web server and PHP language pre-installed so it’s a much simpler process to ensure that everything is working together. I will be demonstrating the process using the Terminal commands. My installation environment is a hosted Mac server with 1 GB of RAM and 40 GB of disk space. Backgroundįor this demonstration, I’m going to be using Mac OS X El Capitan (v.10.11), the latest version as of this writing. As with Windows, you could just go with a ready-made development environment like MAMP but, if you’re going to be doing real database and web design work with MySQL, it’s best to know how everything works. Now I want to show you how to create an AMP web programming stack ( Apache, MySQL & PHP) on Mac OS X.

A few months ago, I wrote about how to install MySQL on Windows with IIS.

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