It used to be that one would have to finagle with their Mac OS X to get a test server running. I’ve spent many an hour on my old titanium Powerbook typing away at the terminal essentially feeling about in the dark, until PHP would parse in my browser from a local directory.
Now, we have options! Need a local testing environment to work on your latest WordPress theme? Trying to discover the magical combination of CCK, Views and Panels to make Drupal do what you want but you’re in flight and too cheap to pay $13 for 3 hrs of wireless?
Windows:
WAMPserver
Mac:
MAMP
Windows, Mac, *nix:
XAMPP
Acquia Drupal Stack – automatically installs Acquia Drupal as well as Apache, MySQL, and PHP. Easily creates new Drupal sites with control panel interface.
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