[Installer Issue] Installing Oscmax on a Mac

[rose]

Hi there.
Apologies I am very new at this. I am trying to install Oscmax on my Mac so far it has not worked. I have installed Mamp.pkg. All the instructions I have read so far seem to geared towards PC. Can anyone help?

[jpf]

Background.....

If you install a MAMP (simular to a LAMP or WAMP) package - this gives you an Apache Web Server, MySQL and PHP as a base.

From what I can see there is 3 main packages for the Apple OSX people (not using Windows and/or Virtual Box)....

MAMP
XAMPP
MAMPStack

After installing one of the above the PKG - you have to DROP the whole of osCmax into the "web" "public" or "htdocs" folder.

IE:



Start the MAMP

Open a brower and navigate to "localhost" or "127.0.0.0"

If you did not put osCMax main files into the "root" - it should be a folder/directory - click on the directory and if needed - install.php or index.php file.

Good Luck!

(need to update the links below..... Yikes)

[llamma]

double post sorry..

[llamma]

If you've got Mamp sucessfully installed just use the information here for wamp install (mamp=mac wamp=windows) Essentially its the same package, a version of apache, php and mysql that runs on the platform you have.

http://wiki.oscdox.com/v2.5/local_installation

OscMax doesn't care if your a Mac or PC user. Its running in PHP on an Apache webserver (at least in the case of mamp)

Just use whatever FTP tool you like to get your files in the right directory, (installing locally you don't even need to FTP)
Setup your Database and Password via PHPmyAdmin (or any other tool you prefer to administer the database, myadmin is included with mamp)
navigate to the install directory using whichever web browsers you like and follow the on screen instructions.

[ridexbuilder]

IMO, much better to use a free/cheap hosting provider, to get you started and will operate far closer to what a live site will. No local install peculiarities to worry about and unless you're a seasoned server admin. then you'll save a lot of hassle.

[rose]

Thanks guys - I will give it a go!

[llamma]

IMO, much better to use a free/cheap hosting provider, to get you started and will operate far closer to what a live site will. No local install peculiarities to worry about and unless you're a seasoned server admin. then you'll save a lot of hassle.

I have to agree with that, I did use wamp for some testing and it "works" but certain things failed due to the local host environment. In the end if you can't test everything what good is a test environment. I ended up ditching it and going back to a test folder on my main hosted server. I do still use wamp for to load backup databases into mysql and manipulate data without having to upload/download big files over and over again.

Whats he talking about free hosting that supports PHP and MySQL?
Wow I'm surprised, yeah I could use a free test server here's a whole page of providers!
free web hosting with free MySQL database

[jpf]

I have looked at all the "free" guys out there - for the most part they are OKAY - but would not run a very active system on there.... A few hits per hour (on average) would be totally fine. But with any amount of volume - then it may be overloaded. They tend to put 50 to 200+ v-host per CPU and if a few tie up the CPU then things fail. For free to test this is good - but for anything more than that and to get your own domain name and paid hosting - for as little as 45 buck a year (and up). it is worth it, as free sites will have little to no guarantee or support.

[ridexbuilder]

@JPF: Did I say at any point, to use a free/cheap hosting provider for a live site?
Jeez, does everything have to be spelled out in words of one syllable?
I even have an affiliate program, to make things easier for folks: http://ejhosting.net/free-web-hosting.html - heck knows how good they are! (the lack of Curl may be an issue for some modules, for example.)

[pgmarshall]

I do all my development on a mac using MAMP - so it does work! However, once small issue I have found is that Chrome will not hold a session when running osCmax on MAMP - however Firefox will - go figure! Regards.