Mar 31 2008

Finishing a MAMP install

By Colin • Apple • 0

Paths to MAMP programs After you installed MAMP you will find that none of the programs like mysql or apachectl will run without its full path. The easiest way i have found too add all the MAMP programs into terminal is to add a path variable into your terminal profile. First lets open the terminal profile

sudo nano /etc/profile

Now add the line.

PATH="/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/bin:
/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/Applications/MAMP/bin/apache2/bin/"

This will add any programs the bash terminal finds in any of the directories listed. You can add more by adding a colon then the path of the directory you are adding. Handy aliases You can also alias long or complicated unix commands in the profile. For instance you can change ‘ls -la’ to just ‘l’ which is great seeing as the amount of times you type it. Here are a some of the aliases i use, if you have textmate installed you can change the nano to mate.

# Aliases alias l=’ls -la’ alias ea=’sudo nano /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/httpd.conf’ alias ev=’sudo nano /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/httpd-vhosts.conf’ alias sites=’cd /users/[username]/Sites’ alias eh=’sudo nano /etc/hosts’