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DESCRIPTION
MAMP Pro is the commercial, professional grade version of the classic local server environment for OS X: MAMP. Designed for professional web developers and programmers, MAMP PRO allows easy installation and administration of their development environment under Mac OS X.
As a professional web developer you have to test your programs in detail. In addition, you need a highlyconfigurable developing environment with all the components also used by most ISPs: Apache, MySQL and PHP in the latest stable versions. No matter whether you want to test your latest Ajax creation, or realize a new page with webEdition: MAMP PRO supports you during the tests of your developments.
You can set up any number of servers to carry out tests without danger for your live system. Besides, the local name resolution is performed by MAMP PRO. To simulate a very authentic environment, the MAMP PRO also switches on the local mail server, so that dispatching mails by PHP scripts is possible.
With MAMP PRO, you can easily connect your local server with an existing Dynamic DNS provider, as for example dyndns.com. Making it very simple to quickly make the results of your work accessible externally for superiors and prospective customers. And because you can set up many virtual hosts, you can easily offer alternative configurations or suggestions.
The freely available standard design "MAMP" is automatically coinstalled with MAMP PRO. Thus all MAMP features are available to you immediately:
- Apache web server
- MySQL database server
- phpMyAdmin to access the MySQL database
- PHP as a module for the web server
- Company of web server and database on standard or individual port
With MAMP PRO, no complicated editing of configuration files is necessary to set up a working test environment. Cleanly seperated, several projects can be developed at the same time. To be able to represent as great of a variety of ISPÔs as possible, PHP can be toggled at any time between Version 4 and 5 to guard against any possible incompatibilities. A Staging server on your Mac is set up with MAMP PRO with a few mouse clicks, so that you can keep your customers and superiors up-to-date about the state of your projects at any time. The user interface of MAMP PRO allows Apache modules to be systematically enabled or deactivated. Thus you can perfectly emulate the server environment on which your project will later run, and guarantee the highest possible quality of your project.
The MySQL database is a component of the MAMP, however it is much easier to configure with MAMP PRO. To increase the security of a Mac connected to the Internet, you can not only quite easily change the port where MySQL answers, but change of the Root password or limit the access to the database server to local users. Should errors occur for SQL inquiries: with MAMP PRO you can also define the location for your errorlog to be saved, so that you will not have to search for it.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.8.3:
- Because of a bug in PHP 5.2.10 the PHP version was updated to PHP 5.2.11
- error on WebStart Page fixed (PHP example for MySQL connections contained an error)
- Connection to remote Database Servers with PHP function mysql_connect() is now working without configuring a port
- Japanese localization added
- Help Menu entries added:
- MAMP Website
- MAMP Blog
- Follow us on Twitter
- Report an issue
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
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| MAMP Pro User Reviews (8 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Oct 13 2009 |
MACLOVER1.1 Simplifies my life a great deal.
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| Sep 8 2009 |
GREG RAVEN It's wonderful having a new version of MAMP Pro. I'd stopped using the old version because the developer seemed to have abandoned it, and between the built-in Apache server with Mac OS X and the new, easy-to-install MySQL, it was easier to roll my own local development server. But now I'm back with MAMP Pro, not only for the ease of use, but for the little extras that are difficult to do when rolling your own. As opposed to using the built-in server, MAMP Pro also allows you to keep most of your development server files outside of the /etc/ folder, which makes them easier to work with, back up, keep track of, etc. -- especially through the OS upgrade process. So far, I've come across only a couple of gotchas. First, even though there seems to be an httpd.conf file in the conf folder inside the MAMP directory, it's not the one that controls the behavior of MAMP Pro. For that, you have to go into your /Library/Application Support/appsolute/MAMP PRO/conf folder. Because MAMP Pro puts all the NameVirtualHost and VirtualHost info inside the httpd.conf file, you'll have to take a step back from doing it the new Apache way, but it's not that big a deal. I have just over a dozen virtual hosts on my machine, and I set them up in what seemed to be a few minutes. Second, MAMP Pro isn't really ready out of the box to run a local instance of Movable Type. WordPress is just about a no-brainer, but with MT, you can wander into blind alleys that seem to have no exit. I finally got mine to run by setting up my SQLite databases under the cgi-bin directory, rather than in the /db/sqlite section of MAMP Pro. Of course, even once you get it running, there are perl modules missing so MT throws error messages all over, but you can work through them ... at least to get your development instance working. About the only thing on my wish list is that it would be nice to be able to store the MAMP and MAMP Pro files someplace other than the /Applications directory, because that's not the way I have may files arranged. Bottom line: If you need a development server environment and don't feel like fighting with BitNami or xampp, or rolling your own, or making do with the lesser utility of a VirtualHostX-based system, MAMP Pro is just about the shortest way of getting there.
(Version 1.8.2) | |
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 | Sep 7 2009 |
JASON EMANUELSON Their contact form does not work (autoresponder with mail failure notice - address does not exist), and thus one is unable to ask questions of the developer. Something to be mindful of when purchasing software like this.
(Version 1.8.1) | |
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| Sep 4 2009 |
WRELEVEN Actually a pretty cool package. It does use some odd directories to keep everything together and ensure that it doesn't disturb the apple/standard installed servers. Though I was happy to see Snow Leopard support, I was disappointed that none of the MAMP software is 64bit. The pro version is quite welcome and truly makes it easy to manage the apache server.
(Version 1.8) | |
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| Apr 28 2009 |
KLAGRECA MAMP Pro should include an FTP server and SSL support if wants to differentiate itself more from the "basic" version. I'd be glad to pay more for the PRO version if these services were included.
(Version 1.7.2) | |
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| Feb 10 2009 |
COCOANUT I have not used this yet but the thought of a simple server environment setup for me to do development and testing is very appealing. I hope this works out, seems great!
(Version 1.7.2) | |
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| Oct 15 2007 |
ALJUK Awesome. A brilliant development solution. Very flexible, virtual hosts, and the ability to serve up sites for clients to see and test straight from my laptop. Extremely impressed, straight 5 *****.
(Version 1.7) | |
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| Mar 1 2007 |
ERIC CALDWELL I have been running MAMP for a while and editing config files, hosts files, etc. since I develop web sites locally. This inexpensive tool made that SO much easier. Another benefit is that MAMP Pro actually moves your DB's to /Libarary/xxx making upgarding the MAMP core files (Apache, PHP, etc.) a breeze! If you put a value on your time, then this product is worth the money. MAMP Pro 1.1 and MAMP 1.5b1 work nicely together. The nice thing about MAMP 1.5b1 is that it now includes the Intel ZEND Optimizer which I had to code in the php.ini by hand before. No more...
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