How to Install XAMPP on MAC OSX

Leopard brings one big change to web developers working with Apache, PHP and Mysql on Macintosh. Apache 2 comes with Leopard along with PHP 5. And Know, XAMPP is a free and open source cross-platform web server package, includes Apache HTTP Server, MySQL database, and interpreters for scripts written in the PHP and Perl programming languages.

Developed by Apache and the details are available. If you are a web programmer and you want to test the developed site as how will it look exactly when it is launched on the we, it can helps you. Makes your machine run as a web sever and host sites locally.

How to Download and Install XAMPP on your MAC.

1. Following below link, a complete list of downloads (older versions) is available at sourceforge. Link of Download XAMPP for MAC: www.apachefriends.org)
2. Open the *.dmg file and the very first thing you need to do is move or drag xampp folder into you applications folder.
3. In order to run this all you need to do is open xampp control and launch Apache, MySQL and ProFTPD, where ProFTPD is not required until you have to upload the site on the server on the web.
4. The final, check this application with browser. Open your browser and type http://localhost and you should see a page like below.

For more info about XAMPP here.