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I spent a little time this morning setting up my Mac Mini with the standard development junk (TextMate, iTerm, etc) and started working on adding webserving gear. Apache of course comes default with Mac OS X and PHP was easy enough to setup with DarwinPorts.

MySQL however proved a little challenge; it installed fine with DarwinPorts but wasn’t playing nicely. Feeling lazy I googled a little and found MAMP; the all in one package with Apache2/MySQL/PHP and a schwag of other junk.

It’s not designed for true Mac OS X server’s in mind of course; you’d be silly using it for anything other then development.

So far so good and it’s playing quite nicely.

Oh and for Ruby on Rails I use the aptly named Locomotive!