

That it, to test it out, restart your Mac, login and try to access from your browser…. Choose the look you want for your desktop. Last of all, now we just need to set a few permissions etc.

sudo nano istĪgain, we need to populate the file with the following contents:.

You can also start specific xampp apps for example, starting apache only by using /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/xampp startapache instead.
#GET STARTED WITH XAMPP FOR MAC MAC OS X#
It comes as a Mac OS X Installer package which contains all the necessary files and requires no dependencies. The distribution includes an Apache 2 Web server, integrated with the latest builds of MySQL, PHP (both 4 and 5) and Perl.
#GET STARTED WITH XAMPP FOR MAC FOR MAC OS X#
If you installed XAMPP elsewhere you will need to modify the path above. XAMPP for Mac OS X is the simplest, most practical and most complete webserver solution for Mac OS X. It’s not as straight forward to use as AMPPS, but it’s probably one of the better applications for localhost development. /rebates/&252fxampp-for-mac. Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/xampp start /rebates/&252fxampp-for-mac. So that’s when we made the switch to XAMPP. When Nano opens up, you should populate the file with the following:- #!/bin/sh I hope this very quick tutorial is of help to some other people too 🙂įirst of all you need to open up the terminal on your MacOSX machine (I’m current using MacOSX 10.7 ‘Lion’)Īt the terminal enter the following comamnds:- cd /Library/StartupItems I thought I’d post up my solution to auto-starting XAMPP when I turn on my iMac Although I normally develop on Linux and Windows… I have a nice shiney iMac downstairs of which I’m starting to use more and more for development.
