Comments on: Web Development in Mac OS X – Complete Guide

By: Do it Yourself website

Do it Yourself website — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 05:52:24 +0000

informative post. thanks for sharing this very useful guide.

By: Magento Development

Magento Development — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:16:03 +0000

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By: Gyorgy Fekete

Gyorgy Fekete — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:16:38 +0000

This could happen for a couple of reasons…

Make sure in your httpd.conf file you have this: NameVirtualHost *:80

Make sure you have set an initial virutal host for localhost like this

DocumentRoot “/Users/gyorgyfekete/Sites”
ServerName localhost

And make sure you set up your /etc/hosts file right and you registered the virtual host aliases to route to your local IP address.

If you have any problems please write me an e-mail and I will help you set it up. (e-mail address on the contact page)

By: mostmodernist

mostmodernist — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:04:14 +0000

Hey, thanks for this swift run through. It helped me solve some problems I was having. however, I followed your directions to change my DocumentRoots, but for some reason it still only works when i put my files in /xampp/htdocs (even with altered root path)…? I get nothing (not found) out of the new path.

By: Cranker

Cranker — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:26:14 +0000

Mhhmmm, maybe that was the case. I don’t know. After trying a couple different solutions and changing this and that – I found a link to MAMP PRO (http://www.mamp.info) and downloaded this. Its not free but it works fine and is super easy. Those guys did a good job and its worth 40 Bucks. I spent quite a while figuring out why things doesn’t work without a solution. Time is money…

Thanks for you fast answer anyway. Next time I try I will check permissions as well…

By: Gyorgy Fekete

Gyorgy Fekete — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:46:03 +0000

On UNIX systems you also have to take in consideration file and directory permissions.

Make sure you have read/write permissions on your htdocs folder, or any other folder that is set up in your virtual host environment.

By: Cranker

Cranker — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:30:36 +0000

I switched to Mac as well. On my PC I used Xampp and got my virtual host set up alright. But after my switch to Mac I cant’ get it running the same way. I just installed the download package from Xampp on my mac and configure virtual hosts as you described above but without the change of the DocumentRoot. Open my Browser, try localhost: Everything is fine. Any other project name doesn’t work
and leed my to http:///xampp/index.php with the same screen like http://localhost.

Then I tried to change the DocumetRoot as you described and I get only an Error Message: Forbidden You don’t have permission to access /xampp/index.php on this server. It doesn’t matter if I try http://localhost or any other virtual host I always get this Error and the Browser points to: http:///xampp/index.php

Do you have any idea why this happens? It sounds quite easy to set these things up but for some reason it doesn’t work… Any help is appreciated.

By: Yann

Yann — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:44:47 +0000

Nice write up! Interesting, I wrote a similar article, then I thought about checking out if others had done the same to see if I could get a couple tips from people who do things differently… but it looks like we have pretty
similar setups, although it looks like I’m definitly more of a “double-click solutions” kinda guy But I don’t know XDebug so I’ll check what that’s for… Thanks for article!

By: Gyorgy Fekete

Gyorgy Fekete — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:29:24 +0000

I;m using TextMate now. It’s better than Coda in my opinion.

Coda is not really meant for server side developing.

By: Tom Keur

Tom Keur — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:25:43 +0000

Hey,

Maybe you should try Coda IDE?
Before I was using Zend Studio on a windows platform.
Since I switched to MAC (1 month) I’m using Coda, I’m using it every day for Web development.

You can give it a try with the trial version .
URL: http://www.panic.com/coda/

Greetings,

Tom

By: rob

rob — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:35:29 +0000

thanks – this is super helpful. after installing the xdebug.so file into the extensions i get this message when restarting XAMPP: “Failed loading /applications/xampp/xamppfiles/lib/php/php5/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/xdebug.so: (null)

any idea what i’m doing wrong? i’m a n00b

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Internet Marketing — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:56:29 +0000

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By: Gyorgy Fekete

Gyorgy Fekete — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 17:06:38 +0000

I use Aptana on a daily basis, but I’m going to switch. On Windows it’s not a problem although I hadn’t tried such large files, but on Mac OS X is very slow, even with regular files.

I tried Eclipse PDT under Mac OS X and it works fine, it’s fast.

By: Bohonyi Balazs - Zsolt

Bohonyi Balazs - Zsolt — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 17:00:46 +0000

Did you tried to edit with Aptana a huge file ? Try it and tell me how it works…

I am developing Java applications (from 9 to 5) and the manual of one of our applications is written in HTML (actionly it’s a long HTML file). When I try to make some modifications, for example indenting a block of text I have to wait a couple of seconds (10-20 secs) until the changes are made. That’s under Windows, I didn’t tried it under Mac OS. I love Aptana, and I’m also using it for web development but… I don’t know what’s the situation with Eclipse, but taking in consideration that Aptana is built upon Eclipse, I won’t be surprised if it’s the same, although I’m using Eclipse for Java development and never saw this happening.

I’m talking about a 500-700 kb HTML file.