Posted by: morktron
on May 8, 2007
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I've been playing around with this MAMP this for a while now, just for the hell of it as I couldn't see much use for it - for me anyway.
Basically it's an application that installs a virtual server on a Mac, with Apache, Php etc - just like a real server. So it's really easy for us 'designer' types to install all those open source apps like Joomla, Wordpress etc - to test them out.
I recently found out that it's not really so hard to move Joomla and Wordpress from one server to another. So I built this new Digiflip site on my local Mac. Normally I would have had to buy a temporary domain and space on a live server to test it.
Now I've just discovered that with a few simple steps in my router admin I can make my testing server accessible by anyone with an interweb* connection!
Check out MAMP here
*I spell like that sometimes cos it's silly :) - Jeremy Clarkson said it