Install Apache, PHP, MySQL on Mac

Recently, as I designed more websites that incorporated the WordPress blogging platform, I started to think about how nice it would be to run WordPress locally on my Mac. Among other advantages, this would allow me to create an off-line development sandbox that is out of view from the public. In order to run WordPress locally, I needed to have Apache, PHP, and MySQL installed on my Mac. The prospects of installing all of that sounded kind of scary, but after a short trip to Google, I found a solution called MAMP. MAMP installs a local server environment on Mac OS X. Besides the fact that its absolutely free, the beauty of MAMP is its ease of installation. A couple clicks and you’re done. Once I had MAMP installed, I referenced the How to Set Up WordPress Locally on your Mac post at Ben Bleikamp’s blog. In less that ten minutes, I was running the latest version of WordPress locally on my Mac.