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Re: So I'm about to buy my first Mac and need Mac user advice....
Excellent, Marios.
(I’ve been very busy with work and family)
I’ll start with that first book straight away.
I’m feeling a little (lot) disoriented. For example I need to install MAMP, but I don’t know if I can work outside of the htdocs folder (for virtual directories) or if there is an equivalent of a Windows “hosts” file I have to modify.” I think I understand well what you mean about “has consumed large amounts of time”.
P.S. In case anyone feels compelled to suggest I install local dev components by scratch or use VMware or whatever…I really don’t have the time for the learning curves right now…I just need to get my sites local so I can work, and I know the XAMPP stack well already…except not the Mac architecture. Yes, large amounts of time indeed.
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Re: So I'm about to buy my first Mac and need Mac user advice....
Destry wrote:
I’m feeling a little (lot) disoriented. For example I need to install MAMP, but I don’t know if I can work outside of the htdocs folder…
Hi Destry,
You can have any docs folder you wish with MAMP.
Open MAMP
Click on preferences
Then Click Apache
Type the route you want
The limitation is that it can only work from one folder…
Yiannis
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#27 2007-04-07 10:48:40
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Re: So I'm about to buy my first Mac and need Mac user advice....
You can also create any number of symbolic links for various root folders and place those inside the HTDOCS folder.
SymbolicLinker is a nice context menu plugin that makes creating symlinks a snap.
Cheers Martin
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Re: So I'm about to buy my first Mac and need Mac user advice....
Nifty, thanks guys, that should help get me going.
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Re: So I'm about to buy my first Mac and need Mac user advice....
Also Netinfo Manager let’s you create local domains names like you would with the hosts file.
Open NetInfo Manager, click on machines in the middle column, Duplicate localhost and give it whatever name you want. I use that to create .test virtualhosts for local testing.
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Re: So I'm about to buy my first Mac and need Mac user advice....
Ah, thanks hakjoon, that looks like what I’m after.
Mainly, anywhere I have a live site, I want a local version that has a very similar url, e.g.:
site1.com
local.site1.com
…so that when I upload a db dump to live (or visa versa), all the root-relative links are intact. In windows this never worked when working out of the htdocs folder, but it did just fine when working from the c:\ root, like c:\_txp\site1; basically like it’s described here in TextBook.
Oh, hey, I guess I should give the TxB MAMP instructs a look, for kicks.
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