Yes, I shout it out to all my fellow brothers – after having led a sinful life of Windows miseries, I now have become a true and humble Apple believer :-)
I wanted to install a web server on my Snow Leopard MacBook Pro in order to hand out some documents and thus ventured into googling for mac install apache. I was quite dissatisfied most articles appeared to be rather involved, requiring to either install by source or mandating other system wide packages to be fetched.
It was no sooner than half an hour I discovered that all that was required is just a single tick within a System Preferences Panel:
- Open Sharing from System Preferences
- Tick Web Sharing
Apache is included off-the-shelf and started immediately after Web Sharing has been enabled :-)
MacMost has a video that includes PHP as well:
