Setting up your Mac

Howdy

The Mac folks want you to place your  master "website"  in a folder called Sites. It's a shared folder located in your home folder

Yourmacusername > Sites

If you have an index file in the Sites folder you'll see it In your browser if you type

http://127.0.0.1/~yourmacusername/index.html

(127.0.0.1 is the same as the phrase "localhost") so you can also type

http://localhost/~yourmacusername/index.html

You'll see your index.html page in the browser

This works as the Mac comes with server software built-in, it's called Apache.

If you need to run PHP and a SQL database, there is a different configuration... For now the above works! But, if you need help setting up PHP and SQL let me know...

On my Mac I use a program called Coda

I like Coda, as it can display the markup, the css and a preview, all at the same time.

It looks like this, Files on the left, the html next, a preview and a CSS editor on the right.

It would look much better, and less cluttered on a larger monitor... (one day I'll get the 27 inch iMac)

Here's a link on  to how to setup Coda. It's from their developer user page...

You can try it out for free for a 30 day period. Panic, the publisher/authors are local, they live in Portland.

Here's the link

http://www.panic.com/coda/developer/

 

If you have any questions, send that e-mail!