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mike cohen
836 PointsTo install a web server locally on a mac/pc, what do we use?
I thought MAMP, but apparenty not
3 Answers
Jacob Mishkin
23,118 PointsYou can also give give flywheel a try. Highly recommend it over MAMP or WAMP
Austin Whipple
29,725 PointsMAMP should work for you on both Windows and Mac OS X (though I've only used it on a Mac). You could also give XAMPP a try (for either OS) or WAMP (Windows only).
justdave
31,518 PointsI am a IIS and local mysql fanboy after using XAMPP for many years. IIS takes a little to set up, but has saved me a bunch of time and working on multiple sites with different PHP versions becomes really easy.
Jacob Mishkin
23,118 PointsJacob Mishkin
23,118 PointsOh and its free.
Greg Kaleka
39,021 PointsGreg Kaleka
39,021 PointsI was going to recommend Laravel Valet, but this looks like it does the same stuff plus some WP-specific stuff that would be helpful. Very nice.
Jacob Mishkin
23,118 PointsJacob Mishkin
23,118 PointsGreg Kaleka Yeah, It has some nice features like WP admin cacheing so once you log into your local site it caches the user name password so you can just go in. Runs on Vagrant, which is fine, and it's pretty much made for WP sites. Nice easy, no worries.