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Hi all,
I've been a big user of MAMP Pro over the years as it's fairly flexible, stupidly easy to get a project going and makes for a super quick workflow but, the devs seem to have gone AWOL and it's getting a bit long in the tooth with me having bodge various aspects with additional Dockers.
Given the licence fees i've spent and with no major update in sight, i'm on the hunt for a decent (ideally all-in-one solution) MacOS AMP stack for various web projects, typically PHP/Phalcon based, Apache and PHP extension heavy (PEAR and APXS support needed), to develop locally on that doesn't take an age to start.
Have tried XAMPP as a drop-in replacement but it's frankly awful under MacOS and a bit of a non-starter given it seems to suffer from permission issues with configuring (virtual) hosts which the devs don't want to fix. It's definitely better under Windows but arguably WAMP is better still.
IndigoStack is again a non-starter as whilst it could be a great solution and the dev is happy to try and fix problems, it (currently) doesn't allow you to build extensions to work under each 'container'/stack and there doesn't seem to be a fix on the horizon for it.
Have looked at a few off-the-shelf Docker based dev environments like DDEV and Lando but they appear to rebuild the environment/image on start-up which delays it 20-30mins when your environment has to build a load of (Apache/PHP) extensions from source every time - maybe i've missed it amongst the docs but i can't see a way to stop the rebuild at start-up or create and restore the 'web' container/image from a 'snapshot' other than DB data. They both arguably seem more suited to WordPress/Drupal/Laravel devs.
And i could be wrong but Docksal looks more the same from reading through the docs.
So, what are you all using for your Mac AMP stack environments for development?
Edit - This post may be more suited to the 'HTML, Graphics & Programming' sub-forum; mods, by all means move it if need be.
I've been a big user of MAMP Pro over the years as it's fairly flexible, stupidly easy to get a project going and makes for a super quick workflow but, the devs seem to have gone AWOL and it's getting a bit long in the tooth with me having bodge various aspects with additional Dockers.
Given the licence fees i've spent and with no major update in sight, i'm on the hunt for a decent (ideally all-in-one solution) MacOS AMP stack for various web projects, typically PHP/Phalcon based, Apache and PHP extension heavy (PEAR and APXS support needed), to develop locally on that doesn't take an age to start.
Have tried XAMPP as a drop-in replacement but it's frankly awful under MacOS and a bit of a non-starter given it seems to suffer from permission issues with configuring (virtual) hosts which the devs don't want to fix. It's definitely better under Windows but arguably WAMP is better still.
IndigoStack is again a non-starter as whilst it could be a great solution and the dev is happy to try and fix problems, it (currently) doesn't allow you to build extensions to work under each 'container'/stack and there doesn't seem to be a fix on the horizon for it.
Have looked at a few off-the-shelf Docker based dev environments like DDEV and Lando but they appear to rebuild the environment/image on start-up which delays it 20-30mins when your environment has to build a load of (Apache/PHP) extensions from source every time - maybe i've missed it amongst the docs but i can't see a way to stop the rebuild at start-up or create and restore the 'web' container/image from a 'snapshot' other than DB data. They both arguably seem more suited to WordPress/Drupal/Laravel devs.
And i could be wrong but Docksal looks more the same from reading through the docs.
So, what are you all using for your Mac AMP stack environments for development?
Edit - This post may be more suited to the 'HTML, Graphics & Programming' sub-forum; mods, by all means move it if need be.
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