Installed server on a Mac. Now how do I use it??

**mring** · 11 May 2007, 10:23 PM

Hello,

Newbie Zenner here. Just plunked down almost $50 for the book, and am already completely lost. Unfortunately, the book only has instructions for installing a local server on Windows.

I'm running 10.3.9 and downloaded XAMPP 0.4. Is this the correct version. If not, where do I find the right one?

In any case, I installed it, and have no clue how to even get it going. Does this involve using the terminal? Have never used this, and have already spent well over an hour trying to figure it out. I am not a programmer or developer. I'm also not an idiot, but already feeling like one.

Can anyone help?

**canopy** · 12 May 2007, 02:30 AM

Hello mring, if you're on Tiger, you can try the latest XAMPP for MacOS X (Tiger) or MAMP. However, both do not come with a local mail server.

Since you are running 10.3.9 (Panther) and most probably on a non-Intel Mac, you may run into problems setting things up properly. I'll see what I can do for you in this case.

**mring** · 12 May 2007, 12:41 PM

Thanks so much. Yes, I am running Panther (non Intel). Got very frustrated with XAMPP last night and dumped the whole thing. Started fresh with MAMP instead (v. 1.4) because I read that that might be easier. Seemed to get it installed okay. But still no idea how to use it or where to go from there.

Is this a better way to go? It still seems way beyond my scope. Would I be better off forgoing the local host and going straight to remote?

**canopy** · 13 May 2007, 06:45 AM

See my email to you and let's work out how best to move forward on the problems you've encountered so far.

**rstevenson** · 13 May 2007, 04:15 PM

Why not continue to work it out here in the forum, so others can learn too? Or at least post a summary of the process.

Rob

**Pixxi** · 13 May 2007, 08:05 PM

I'd also be interested to hear if you manage to get MAMP to work (properly) with zen 1.3.7.

Both the 1.4 (PPC) and the 1.6 (Universal Binary) versions install and seem to run Ok on my Mac (10.4.8), but put a (working) zen shop copy into the htdocs folder and load up the database and the following happens:

1. All prices in the shop show as zero ('0') (all prices show correctly in admin).

2. No currency signs (£) show before prices in shop.

3. The shop currency selector defaults to US (even though GBP is the default) and can't be changed.

4. Permissions on includes/configure.php need to be set to 444 to avoid the warnings (admin side is Ok at 644 though for some reason).

Tried it with both PHP 4.x.x and PHP 5.x.x in the MAMP control panel. MAMP 1.6 is using MySQL 5.0.37 - wonder if that has anything to do with it?

Interesting to see if the same happens on your system.