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From: dmille6 on 6 May 2008 00:14
hi, i'm not sure this is the right place to ask this, but i figured someone out
there would be doing what i'm trying to do.

I'm going to be on an international flight for close to 14 hours. which will
be a great time for me to work on a website i've been meaning to work on. I'm
running a mac, OS X 10.5, and dreamweaver.

would it be better to run a virtual machine webserver to test my site, or just
run apache on my mac. i'll need need mysql too.. any suggestions. i'm
reasonably computer savy, i've set up a web servers, i just dont know what the
best approach is.

any suggestions would be appreciated.

From: SnakEyez02 on 6 May 2008 10:10
If you need something simple and you are on an intel mac, you could download
the mysql installer package from mysql.com and the php package from entropy.ch
and you will be good to go.

If you are on a PowerPC Mac you will need to download MAMP (
http://www.mamp.info/en/index.php ) because there is no Leopard PowerPC mySQL
package.

Using Fusion or Parallels to run a server is an option, but that would
virtualize the server which is not what you want to be doing. If anything the
virtual machine would be of better use set up with Windows to test IE.

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