On Mar 27, 2009, at 2:18 AM, Bill Christensen wrote:

> And in the most recent MAMP server I built, i discovered that you can
> go into the instruction file and change the ./configure directives.
> This is important if, for instance, the apache server you're
> installing doesn't normally come with PEAR or MySQL support, and you
> know you will likely need support for those.

Be careful using MAMP rather than XAMPP or building the various bits  
by hand. MAMP is designed for developers to have a server system on  
their Mac for development purposes, and is missing some security stuff  
that you really want in place for running a live server.

 From the MAMP website:

"MAMP was created primarily as a PHP development environment for  
Macintosh computer and should therefore not be used as Live Webserver  
for the Internet. In this case, we recommend that you use Mac OS X  
server with the provided Apache or a Linux server."

XAMPP is as easy a plug-n-play solution, and is set up to serve as a  
live internet server. Just make sure you go through and do the  
security steps during the installation. We had some folks here leave  
that step out and their server got hacked.

-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs



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