One of the best ways to develop Joomla! websites on your personal Mac computer is using MAMP. MAMP is an application that provides all the resources needed to run a content management system. Once you download MAMP to your computer you can install as many Joomla! sites as you have hard drive space for and do all your development and experimenting in this safe environment just as if it was on a live server.
The simplest way to develop a Joomla! site on your local Mac OS X computer is by using MAMP. MAMP is short for Macintosh, Apache, MySQL, PHP. MAMP works just like an application. It is released under the GNU General Public License. You can download MAMP from Living-e AG.
The download page can be found HERE. Current MAMP versions require Mac OS X 10.4.x. If you're running Mac OS X 10.3.x you can download an earlier version of MAMP 1.4.1 (universal binary), for Intel and PowerPC.
Read more: Installing Joomla 1.5 On Your Local Macintosh using MAMP.
We are going to walk through the steps that it takes to start developing Joomla 1.5 on your Macintosh computer using MAMP. The first step is to install MAMP on your Macintosh computer. MAMP was created by Living-e AG primarily as a PHP development environment for the Macintosh computer. It is free and released under the GNU General Public License.
Read more: Install MAMP to Run Joomla 1.5 On Your Macintosh Computer
Previously on JoeJoomla I wrote a series of articles called 'Web Development On Your Macintosh Computer Using MAMP and Joomla! CMS'. These articles have been very popular and many people continue to send me messages saying that they are the best instructions on how to install Joomla! in a localmachine development environment.
Read more: Joomla 1.5 Website Development On A Macintosh Computer Using MAMP