I recently wrote a blog on setting up a local environment in macosx to develop locally. Although this is great and a good alternative the the web servers out there as it is faster, it is not ideal if you need to run different versions of php and also doesn't truly reflect the set up of the linux servers that you are...
Mac OSX
Using .bashrc in Mac OSX
I tried to create some aliases and export some variables I have created by putting them in my .bashrc file whilst using my macbook pro. When I logged out and then back into terminal they were not available to use. I couldn't understand. I did however, find out that Mac OSX is an exception.
Mac OSX loads ....
Drupal Development in Mac OSX
I have used MAMP for a while and it is a great tool. I do however, develop on Linux as well and prefer to run Drupal natively. Snow Leopard 10.6 comes with php 5.3 pre-installed and apache.
I thought I would take advantage of this and install mysql too and run my drupal sites natively. As installing php5.2...




