Note: This tutorial is for MAMP 1.1. I plan on doing an update to this tutorial so please be patient as I need to figure it out again.

MAMP is a great package for testing and developing websites locally on your Mac. It is extremely easy to use and very stable. While MAMP is not designed to be used in a production environment, and is not recommended by the developers, but with some careful modfication, MAMP can be secured sufficiently to be used in a public development environment. MAMP, out of the box, includes the following software:

* Apache 2.0.54
* MySQL 4.1.12
* PHP 4.4 & 5.0.4
* eAccelerator 0.9.3
* phpMyAdmin 2.6.3-pl1
* Zend Optimizer 2.5.10
* SQLite 2.8.14
* Freetype 2.1.9
* t1lib 5.1.0
* bzip2 1.0.3
* curl 7.14.0
* jpeg 6b
* libpng-1.2.5
* gd 2.0.28

This makes it a viable solution for users who do not want to install, upgrade or modify the built in Apache and PHP.
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