By stormer on

I'm off on a business trip which will take me to areas where I'm not likely to have internet access. However, I'd like to keep working on my site and am wondering what's required to run a version of the site on my laptop. I'm running Drupal 5.0 and the laptop is a MacBook Pro.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Ole

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drriley commented

Perhaps you would be interested in the info here:

http://creativebits.org/install_drupal_locally_on_your_mac

http://maczealots.com/tutorials/drupal/

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stormer commented

that seems to cover pretty much what I was after.

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xmacinfo
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I have a Mac Book Pro too.

You can use Parallels and Windows and Linux. However, on the Mac side there are two powerful Apache, PHP and MySQL powerful packages available for the Mac. PHPMyAdmin also included in the installation. The installer for each products does it in less time it takes to drink a glass or water.

XAMPP (free)
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-macosx.html

Very powerful and easy to install. Updates and new versions are not often released.

MAMP (free)
http://www.mamp.info/en/index.php

Very powerful and easy to install. Updates and new versions are released regularly. This is currently the best package for now on the Macintosh.

MAMP Pro (beta, won't be free)
http://www.living-e.de/en/products/The-MAMP/index.php?mp_id=2

* unlimited virtual hosts
* automatic local name resolution
* extensive configuration possibilities
* PHP Error Reporting and logfiles
* DynDNS support

Installs on top of the free MAMP. Beta 1. Release version expected in 2007-02. No pricing yet.

I'm using the beta version and the best really gets better on a Macintosh. I wonder how much it will be, though. I may order the final version.

Mac users have more and more choices.

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osiris24x commented

I run MAMP (http://www.mamp.info/en/home/) on my MacBook for my local Drupal install. It took about 5 minutes to make the local database, install Drupal, and have things up and running. I found this a much better way to evaluate Drupal, as opposed to checking it out online.

Roger Michaels
Macintosh Consultant
www.mymacfix.com

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stormer commented

I wish Id known about this 12 hours ago - I took the roundabout route which ended up taking about 3 hours from start to finish but... it's up and running. Next time I'll definitely be MAMPing it.

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dustonio commented

When I first tried using MAMP Pro, I stumbled and couldn't get a locally developed multisite to run. I then later figured out what I was doing wrong and have posted a concise walk-through here:

1) Start WAMP Pro

2) Click on Hosts and click on the Plus Sign to add a new Server Name. Give it the name of the site you want to launch: (e.g. examplesite1.com)

3) For Disk location, choose the directory of your multisite. (/Users/YourHardDriveName/Sites/Drupal)
Note that the Drupal directory is the root directory of my multisite.
You will be prompted to enter your system password to restart Apache

4) To view the web site locally, in your browser type in examplesite1.com:8888
Note that the ":8888" will be the port for Apache that shows up on the Server > General screen of MAMP Pro.
(This last step is what stumped me for so long before)

Hopefully this info helps out some other fellow Drupal users who are developing local sites using MAMP Pro