Raam Dev » MAMP http://raamdev.com Cultivating a human perspective Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:44:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Problems Starting and Stopping MAMP in Leopard http://raamdev.com/2008/problems-starting-and-stopping-mamp-in-leopard/ http://raamdev.com/2008/problems-starting-and-stopping-mamp-in-leopard/#comments Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:36:46 +0000 Raam Dev http://blog.raamdev.com/?p=1153 First of all, I love MAMP (Apache, MySQL, and PHP for Mac). I use it on a regular basis for web development and it has been extremely useful since I started working on a Mac platform about a year ago. After upgrading to Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), I discovered MAMP would sometimes have problems starting and stopping. The MAMP widget and control panel would both say that Apache and MySQL are running, when in fact they were not.

MAMP App
MAMP Widget

When attempting to stop the services, MAMP would show the progress meter for a few seconds and then do nothing (the lights stayed green). This was quite annoying to say the least.

Apparently this is a known bug. But don’t fear, there is a solution! Click the Preferences button on the MAMP control panel, then click OK. MAMP will do some reinitializing and then all is well again. You’re also able to start/stop MAMP from the widget.

The latest version available is 1.7.1 and it was released on 08-13-2007, almost a full year ago! I suppose that’s what you can expect from a free version of their main product, MAMP Pro ($60), but slow bug fixes to their free version certainly wouldn’t make me feel good paying money for MAMP Pro.

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