Last updated September 30, 2007. Created by skiquel on July 15, 2007.
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On the Mac, the most popular all-in-one package for installing the tools you will need for a local web server is MAMP. There is also a Mac version of the XAMPP package. You can also use the native Mac Apache and install MySQL and PHP yourself. The following pages cover some of these different approaches.
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Drupal Multi-Site on Mac OS X 10.4
Just thought I'd post a link to my article on doing a Multi-Site setup on OS X 10.4. It doesn't require installing MAMP or XAMPP, but you will have to have PHP and MySQL running, which are covered in Manually install MySQL and PHP. Other than that, it's all tools that are included in OS X natively.
I've used some of what can be found here and in other section of the documentation, and tried to bring it all together. Plus I included a cronall script that you can download to automatically cron all your Drupal sites. See the post at http://blogs.martiangraphix.com/2009/09/building-a-drupal-development-en...
Maybe this will help someone.
Michael
Martian Graphix, Inc
Another option for the mac
Run a linux server inside Parallels or VMware Fusion and connect via ssh, ftp, or mount the htdocs directory via NFS Manager.
Advantages are being able to closely replicate a production environment, avoid modifying your system, and run multiple instances. Disadvantages include the cost of software, virtual machine overhead, and having to install linux.