Where can I find a list of MAMPs?

Question

I'm looking for a MAMP packaging = Apache + MySQL + PHP bundled together for Mac OS X (which is my OS). Where can I find it? Is there an "official" site where I can download it from?

[ I know that there are Apache and PHP shipped with Mac OS X, but I don't want to use them, because it seems that if I do it, and later upgrade them, I may have trouble in the case Apple provides a system update which reverts or conflicts with my "manual" upgrade. Can you confirm that? Here is the link: 1]

Answer 1

You could have a look at MAMP (there's a free and commercial version)

MAMP is installed in the typical Mac fashion: very easily. MAMP will not compromise any existing Apache installation already running with your OS X. You can install Apache, PHP and MySQL without starting a script or having to change any configuration files!

Philosophy: MAMP was created primarily as a PHP development environment for Macintosh computer and should therefore not be used as Live Webserver for the Internet. In this case, we recommend that you use Mac OS X server with the provided Apache or a Linux server.

Included programs & libraries

• Apache 2.0.63
• MySQL 5.1.44
• PHP 5.2.13 & 5.3.2
• APC 3.1.3
• eAccelerator 0.9.6
• XCache 1.2.2 & 1.3.0
• phpMyAdmin 3.2.5
• Zend Optimizer 3.3.9
• SQLiteManager 1.2.4
• Freetype 2.3.9
• t1lib 5.1.2
• curl 7.20.0
• jpeg 8
• libpng-1.2.42
• gd 2.0.34
• libxml 2.7.6
• libxslt 1.1.26
• gettext 0.17
• libidn 1.15
• iconv 1.13
• mcrypt 2.6.8
• YAZ 4.0.1 & PHP/YAZ 1.0.14

Answer 2

There are a few, but my favourite is Zend's own, fully integrated hassle free controller

Zend Server Community Edition