

On most macs with the same architecture (Intel) you will be able to startup from your disk, but it's no guarantee that you can startup every Mac with it.įor you begin, you must be sure Mac OS X can startup from your disk, not all disks are able to do that.
#Xampp mac portable install
And you won't install anything on other's computers! When you're done, you should set the startup disk back to the original one. Now you have root privileges, you can install XAMPP. Restart Mac and you will startup from your own disk.

When done go to system preferences -> startup disk and select your disk. For example, if all have an Intel Mac, you could install Mac OS X Snow Leopard on your own disk. This might work if all the computers have the same system. If they don't want you install anything on the computers, you can try one more thing. You should ask to the other people if you may have temporary root privileges. With only guest privileges you are unable to use XAMPP. February 2009 15:04 Location: Amersfoort, The Netherlands Operating System: Mac OS X The Portable XAMPP server building can also make system administrator tasks much more easier with a clear version that is portable - an additional benefit nonetheless.

It is highly recommended to use the package management system of your distribution or to manually compile. SQLite, PostgreSQL, Django, Apache, Django, MongoDB, Ruby, Memcached, for windows/ linux / Mac local development or. All 32 of its versions can run.Microsoft operating systems for start-ups and beyond include Linux, MacOS X and Solaris. Built for Debian 11.0 (Bullseye) 64bit edition. You could even write/use another PHP-application that automatically will detect new backups made on an other location and restores everything when needed. I liked it more than XAMPP but works worse.Dont use this one. The only bad thing is that you can't carry your databases this way, but a solution for that would be to use (or write) a PHP-application that regular makes backups of your databases and stores them together with the webfiles. I've no experience yet with pointing to files on another disk, but in it's discussed. I was using Xampp for local development until about a year ago when I. You can make use of virtual hosts to point to a folder on an other location of the disk. There are other possibilities to travel with your websites, though. So, if you move XAMPP to another folder it will complain it can't find file '/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/.'. I believe many of the XAMPP paths are 'hard-coded'. XAMPP needs to be installed on the startup disk. I'm not sure, but I don't think it is possible to install XAMPP on another disk.
