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Illu Welcome to XAMPP for Mac OS X

XAMPP for Mac OS X is the simplest, most practical and most complete webserver solution for Mac OS X. The distribution includes an Apache 2 web server, integrated with the latest builds of MySQL, PHP (both 4 and 5) and Perl. It comes as a Mac OS X Installer package which contains all the necessary files and requires no dependencies.

If you are an experienced web developer or a Mac enthusiast who needs to run a webserver, create dynamic webpages or use databases, this is your lucky day!
This version is for Mac OS X 10.4 (Intel&PPC) and higher.

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Installation in 4 Steps
Step 1: Download
Step 2: Installation
Step 3: Start
Step 4: Test
READ ME
A matter of security (A MUST READ!)
Advanced start and stop parameters
What's where?
Stopping XAMPP
Uninstall
Thanks

Step 1: Download

Simply click on the link below. It's a good idea to get the latest version. :)

A complete list of downloads (older versions) is available at SourceForge.
There are none yet, but there will be.

XAMPP for Mac OS X 0.7.3, 2008/2/11
Version	Size	Notes
XAMPP Mac OS X 0.7.3 Installer Version Universal Binary	91 MB	Apache 2.2.9, MySQL 5.0.51b, PHP 4.4.8, PHP 5.2.6, Perl 5.10.0, ProFTPD 1.3.0a, phpMyAdmin 2.11.7, OpenSSL 0.9.8h, GD 2.0.35, Freetype 2.3.5, libjpeg 6b, libpng 1.2.18, libungif-4.1.4, zlib 1.2.3, expat 2.0.1, Ming 0.3, Webalizer 2.01-10, pdf class 009e, mod_perl 2.0.3, SQLite 3.4.0, phpSQLiteAdmin 0.2, libiconv-1.11, gdbm-1.8.3, libxml-2.6.29, libxslt-1.1.21, openldap-2.3.36, imap-2004g, gettext-0.16.1, libmcrypt-2.5.8, mhash-0.9.9, curl-7.16.4, zziplib-0.10.82, bzip2-1.0.3, freetds-0.64 MD5 checksum: 6d01e64fffa87f471c5641cf6e845b97
XAMPP Mac OS X (tar) 0.7.3 Universal Binary	91 MB	Apache 2.2.9, MySQL 5.0.51b, PHP 4.4.8, PHP 5.2.6, Perl 5.10.0, ProFTPD 1.3.0a, phpMyAdmin 2.11.7, OpenSSL 0.9.8h, GD 2.0.35, Freetype 2.3.5, libjpeg 6b, libpng 1.2.18, libungif-4.1.4, zlib 1.2.3, expat 2.0.1, Ming 0.3, Webalizer 2.01-10, pdf class 009e, mod_perl 2.0.3, SQLite 3.4.0, phpSQLiteAdmin 0.2, libiconv-1.11, gdbm-1.8.3, libxml-2.6.29, libxslt-1.1.21, openldap-2.3.36, imap-2004g, gettext-0.16.1, libmcrypt-2.5.8, mhash-0.9.9, curl-7.16.4, zziplib-0.10.82, bzip2-1.0.3, freetds-0.64 MD5 checksum: 4589036275ac404d3b6b41f56eca7f50
Upgrade 0.7.2 to 0.7.3	5 MB	Upgrade package MD5 checksum: c943e7144410d596c8041abdf0c2b805
Developer package	32 MB	Developer package Installation tar xvfpz xampp-macosx-0.7.3-dev.tar.gz -C /Applications/xampp MD5 checksum: 94780a90c45b90d93027ce04dbeeeaf2

Step 2: Installation

After downloading simply run the following commands in a terminal:

That's all. XAMPP is now installed below the /Applications/xampp directory.

Step 3: Start

After installing simply type in the following commands to start XAMPP for MacOS X:

Go to a Terminal shell and login as the system administrator root:
sudo su
To start XAMPP simply call this command:
/Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/mampp start
You should now see something like this on your screen:
Starting XAMPP for MacOS X 0.7.3... XAMPP: Starting Apache with SSL (and PHP5)... XAMPP: Starting MySQL... XAMPP: Starting ProFTPD... XAMPP for MacOS X started.

Ready. Apache and MySQL are running.

If you get any error messages please take a look at the MacOS X FAQ.

Step 4: Test

OK, that was easy but how can you check that everything really works? Just type in the following URL at your favourite web browser:

http://localhost

Now you should see the start page of XAMPP containing some links to check the status of the installed software and some small programming examples.

Screenshot

A matter of security (A MUST READ!)

As mentioned before, XAMPP is not meant for production use but only for developers in a development environment. The way XAMPP is configured is to be as open as possible and allowing the developer anything he/she wants. For development environments this is great but in a production environment it could be fatal.

Here a list of missing security in XAMPP:

To fix most of the security weaknesses simply call the following command:

/Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/mampp security

It starts a small security check and makes your XAMPP installation more secure.

Advanced start and stop parameters

With /Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/mampp you can not just start and stop XAMPP für MacOS X, you can do loads more. To see what else you can do, just read below.

ERWEITERTE START- UND STOP-PARAMETER
Parameter	Bedeutung
start	Starts XAMPP.
stop	Stops XAMPP.
restart	Stops and starts XAMPP.
reload	Apache, MySQL and - if started - ProFTPD reload their config files
startapache	Only starts the Apache.
startssl	Starts the Apache SSL support. This command activates the SSL support permanently, e.g. if you restart XAMPP in the future SSL will stay activated.
startmysql	Only the MySQL database ist started.
startftp	Only the ProFTPD-Server is started. Via FTP you can upload files for your web server (user "nobody", password "xampp"). This command activates the ProFTPD permanently, e.g. if you restart XAMPP in the future FTP will stay activated.
stopapache	Stops the Apache.
stopssl	Stops the Apache SSL support. This command deactivates the SSL support permanently, e.g. if you restart XAMPP in the future SSL will stay deactivated.
stopmysql	Stops the MySQL database.
stopftp	Stops the ProFTPD server. This command deactivates the ProFTPD permanently, e.g. if you restart XAMPP in the future FTP will stay deactivated.
reloadapache	The Apache webserver reloads its config files.
reloadmysql	The MySQL database reloads its config files.
reloadftp	ProFTPD reloads its config files.

For example: To start Apache with SSL support simply type in the following command (as root):

/Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/mampp startssl

You can now also access your Apache server via SSL under https://localhost.

Stopping XAMPP

To stop XAMPP simply call this command:

/Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/mampp stop

You should now see:

Stopping XAMPP for MacOS X 0.7.3...
XAMPP: Stopping Apache with SSL...
XAMPP: Stopping MySQL...
XAMPP: Stopping ProFTPD...
XAMPP stopped.

And XAMPP for MacOS X is stopped.

Uninstall

To uninstall XAMPP just type in the following command in your Terminal shell as administrative user root:

rm -rf /Applications/xampp

The end.

Thanks

We would like to thank Kai "Oswald" Seidler, Kay Vogelgesang, the whole Apache Friends Team and of course also our users for supporting us and to have made Apache Friends what it is today.

February 2005, Kristian Marcroft

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

XAMPP for Mac OS X [run php and my sql on OSX]

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