Comments on: MAMP vs XAMPP – Apache, PHP, MySQL for OS X

By: web design hastings

web design hastings — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:49:08 +0000

Hi,

I hear alot of bad reviews with regards to MAMP and especially MAMP Pro as the german company behind it are not releasing future versions. Their support do not reply to forum/support questions. I think the view of MAMP is somewhat different from back in 2008! Anyone reading this considering MAMP should seriously consider using MAMP Basic or XAMPP.

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By: Daze

Daze — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:33:09 +0000

Thanks for the comments guys…

It worked out best using MAMP – had it installed & working within 20 mins, set up my vhosts file with all the sites I work on at work within another 10 mins or so and it was away – no real problems at all.

The default root user/pass for accessing MySQL is displayed to you quite clearly, so no worries there either.

For a simple out-of-the box method, I would highly recommend MAMP to anyone running on a Mac

By: Jasper

Jasper — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:22:05 +0000

awesome!

I personally prefer the difficult approach – installing everything from source, because you just know where you are. Not tried to install Image Magick from source, but I’ve got gd2 and all the other stuff I use so it’s the best for me.

By: Collin

Collin — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 07:41:15 +0000

Well, I have always used XAMPP when I’ve needed a local install and never had any touble with it.

BTW – you need to look at how the comments box renders in FF2!