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Mac OSX Installation

by Dani Nordin

To set up a Drupal environment on a Mac platform using MAMP, start by downloading the free version of MAMP at mamp.info (left icon, see Figure H-1). Once the file has downloaded, unzip it, and click on the unzipped file to launch the installer.

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Figure H-1. Screenshot of mamp.info. You want the icon on the left.

MAMP basically turns a folder in your computer into a miniature development server; as a result, all sites that you develop locally will essentially be subfolders of that main ...

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