…In this movie I'm going to show you how to install XAMPP on a Mac.…XAMPP is spelled X A M P P.…It's a package that includes the Apache web server…and MySQL and PHP and a bunch of other things.…And we're going to be using it for running the examples in this course.…So you need to install it on your machine if…you want to follow along with the examples in this course.…Before you install XAMPP there's a couple of things you'll need to do.…One is to check your system preferences and you want…to make sure that you're not already running a web server.…
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So under Sharing here, if you see Web…Sharing you want to make sure it's unchecked.…If you have the very latest version of OS X you probably will not see web…sharing here and that's fine, that means that…you're probably not already running a web server.…But if you're using a version of OS10 earlier than 10.8, I believe…it is, you might have web sharing here and it might be checked.…And that means that Apache is already running on your machine.…You want to uncheck that and quit that version…
There are several ways how to install it on Mac: Use a built-in PHP, Apache and MySQL web server; Install a ready-to-use web server, for example, Xampp; Use.