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print pageGoodbye xampp,mamp,fink,macports - Helllooooo vmware / Debian
After several weeks of testing and struggeling around with all these "run-your-won-webserver-on-macosx" I quit all my approaches. It was a pain in the ass to make all this little programs work.
Last weekend I tried out vmware fusion for Mac OS X and installed a nice Debian Linux. The complete server was running within 30 minutes and it works like charme.
So now I removed all that port-stuff and bought VMware for 39USD. Very fair price for such a great software. Give it a try, it's currently free because it's a beta. If you order it now, you'll get a 50% deposit to the final price of 79USD.
Greets,
Thomas
3 Responses to “Goodbye xampp,mamp,fink,macports - Helllooooo vmware / Debian”
#2: Thomas commented on Monday, 02-07-07 11:56
Hi Andreas,
yes your right! ;-) Mac OS X comes with Apache 1.3 and to be honest I don't like BSD very much. I don't want one system for everything. With vmware (or any other virtualisation solution) I can set up a very clean server environment without struggeling around with all the Mac specific things.
For many people, it's a good way to run everything directly on Mac OS. I tried and I like the VM way better. :-D (Not that I want to but I can also run a Windows in the VM)
I didn't tried VirtualBox yet but maybe I will give it a chance but I already purchased vmware. Anyway, the "shared folders" thing seems to work a bit complex.
Greets,
Thomas
#3: Phoenix commented on Monday, 02-07-07 12:48
I'm using Parallels to have all the MS Office stuff running. Perhaps this is also an option to create a VM for the webserver.
But I have to say, that Apache+PHP+MySQL works very well on MacOS X and since I don't need much options on my developement machine (a customized php.ini does the job) I wouldn't waste resources for a Linux VM.
CU,
Bjoern
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#1: Andreas commented on Monday, 02-07-07 11:46
So you run a virtualized Linux on a Unix derivate to run a Webserver? That sounds like a waste of resources :) I thought MacOS X comes installed with Apache?
Whatever, you could have saved yourself those 39 bucks by simply using VirtualBox from innotek. It offers the same functions like VMware and is completely free. Give it a try:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads