MamppControl

Hey,

Yesterday I had some spare time, so I decided to take a look at the Cocoa collection of frameworks, APIs, and accompanying runtimes that make up the development layer of Mac OS X.
I’ve created this first application with XCode in Objective-C and named it MamppControl.

It allows you to start, stop, reload Mampp from the tray, with a handy tray icon & menu.
Mampp is the other name for Xampp on Mac.

XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use – just download, extract and start.

More information about Xampp here.

I know that there is a launcher includes in the xampp package, but it has no tray icon and stay’s visible in the dock.

Default Xampp Control Panel

At the moment Mampp supports only the basic commands (start, stop, reload). If there is need for the other start/stop settings, contact me through the contact page on this blog or shout it here in the comments.

Mampp needs root access to start the xampp, that’s why you get the security login at start.

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sudo /Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/mampp start

You only have to do this once for the lifetime of the process. And when you change the path setting.

Also keep in mind that there could be some delay when starting or stopping Xampp, since ProFTPD usually takes a few seconds to launch (at least on my laptop it does ).

MamppControl checks if Xampp is already running on startup, and behaves appropriately with that knowledge …

Screenshots

 

 Quicksilver

 

 Security login

 

 Tray Icon

 

 Tray Menu

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MamppControl is licensed under the MIT license.

Copyright (c) 2009 Ninetynine.be

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Current version: 2.0
Requirements:

   • Mac OS X 10.5 or higher.
   • Xampp installation @( /Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/mampp )

Version History

v1.0

• First public release

v2.0

• Added support for latest Xampp for Mac OSX (1.0.1)
• Added option to choose path to “xampp” executable
• Added complete events for starting & stopping & reloading
• Some minor changes internally

As a PHP developer it comes in handy to run your websites without having to upload them to your server. You can run them on your own computer if you want to, there isn’t much to it. I also like using the CodeIgniter framework for my projects, this is a really speeds up the whole process!

I will take you through the basic steps to set up your localhost to get CodeIgniter running.

1) Use Synaptic package manager to install “apache2″, “php5″ and “mysql-server”.

During the installation you will be asked to enter the password for the root user for your mysql-server.

2) Create a symbolic link, so that when you go to localhost in your browser, you get the website you want.

sudo cd /var/
sudo rm -r www/
sudo ln -s /path/to/website www

Always look before you delete something with “rm -r”, normally there should only be a index.html file in your www/ folder.

I prefer creating a link to my website that I put somewhere in my home directory, as this is being back-upped frequently, and is on another partition.



3) Install the package “phpmyadmin” through synaptic.

It is important that you wait to install phpmyadmin until you have installed the other packages and created the symbolic link. Otherwise it can be a mess to get things running.

4) To allow mod-rewrite, to get the clean CodeIgniter URL’s, you need to do the following.

sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

You will see something like this:

        DocumentRoot /var/www
        <Directory />
                Options FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride None
        </Directory>
        <Directory /var/www/>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride None
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
        </Directory>

Change the AllowOverride’s to All.

5) Restart Apache

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

This wasn’t so hard, and it really makes life easier!

Note: You can’t use the function mail() or CodeIgniter’s mail-class without further configuration. I won’t go into details about this.

Also note that there are many ways to tackle this, this is only one easy suggestion. If you need to switch a lot between different websites, then changing the symbolic link each time is too much work. You can check out this article here.

Happy coding!