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By mog. Posted February 9, 2007 at 2:13 pm. Filed under Think and tagged MAMP, XAMPP. Permalink. Subscribe to this post’s comments. Post a comment or leave a trackback.

XAMPP vs MAMPP

Those of you who have been taught by me recently will have had the praises of XAMPP sung in their ears, whilst at the same time occasionally hearing me curse its name in the other.

Gags, my studio partner and President, CEO and Commander in Chief of Sebenza-Systems however had other ideas for running Apache locally on our beloved macs.

I hate to say it, ..and i can see the smile spreading across his face, …but it would appear yet again he is right, ..XAMPP sucks, …boys and girls the way to go is MAMPP.

Yup, MAMPP kicks XAMPP’s sorry little arse, especially since the new universal binary edition (that’s Intel version to you and me) barely even installs let alone works.

So get MAMPP-ing.

You heard it here, ..second. :)

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6 Comments

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Richard Burford
April 6, 2008 at 10:30 am
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What is the date of this post? I think having the date is very useful information for reader allowing them to make a calculated guess if the information is still relevant.

I’ve been using XAMPP on OS X since I switched (Tiger) and now have Leopard. I’ve heard a few people recommend MAMPP and when you start XAMPP from the command line you actually have to do $ sudo mamppp start. Seems XAMPP is actually MAMPP to a certain extent. Would be good to hear if this is still relevant info.

I like your blog design by the way ;)
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mog
April 6, 2008 at 4:08 pm
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The date is on the Top Left, just under the image, ….i got fed up with the whole ‘posted by’, ‘on’ scenario directly under the post, ..so sidelined it, ..but it is there :)

The post was written in February last year, but i still do tend to agree with the choice of MAMP over XAMPP for mac users, especially on the Intel based machines (he says thinking, probably only i am still flogging the old G5 workhorse).
Although, in truth since my annoyance with XAMPP last year and my absolutely pleasure with MAMP, i have had no reason to go back and try the current version of XAMPP which i am sure will do just fine. ..if it ain’t broke and all that.

In response to XAMPP being MAMP, yes, they both essentially utilize the same capabilities within your machine and do pretty much the same thing, ..the only real operable difference is the appending of the port :8888 to the localhost url in the browser.

And finally to sum up, i actually find myself using MAMP much much less these days since the emergence of my absolute favourite piece of software ever ever ever, ..CODA which greatly simplifies the process of working directly on the server (subject to available connection of course, ..and trust that you keep good backups/time tracking).
…which just leaves MAMP as an in-flight development tool.

Glad you liked the site. Thanks.
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spox
April 24, 2008 at 7:27 am
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i have no idea about MAMPP , i think XAMPP is more popular than MAMPP.
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mog
April 27, 2008 at 5:25 pm
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I guess it depends on that old chestnut, ..PERSONAL PREFERENCE !!

There is a nice article reviewing XAMPP/MAMP available here where the author talks about the differences between the two, but all that happens is as with so many pieces of software, they all perform the basic fundamental tasks, but with different interfaces, buttons & widgets.

Lucky we don’t all like exactly the same things really/
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Maxwell
October 17, 2008 at 10:09 am
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Although I’ve been a long time XAMPP user on Wintel, I also have been using it on my G4 iBook. However, after installing the latest version of WordPress and Textpattern using 0.72, I’m getting annoying error messages like “You tried to save to a post that doesn’t exist” or something similar. Or if I try to delete a post, same error. WTF!!!!!! I’m getting lots of problems with the TXP database when running it under XAMPP for Mac OS/X. But I’m gonna download the latest version and see if that fixes the problems.
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mog
October 17, 2008 at 10:33 am
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I would always advise mac users to opt for MAMP, but as stated earlier this is slightly dated advice as i have not used XAMPP for a number of years now and it may now be up to spec, ..all my problems started when using it on the first Intel machines, …and as MAMp has never let me down, i have not looked back.

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