Installation in a Mac OS X environment
MAMP is a free distribution that contains Apache, MySQL, and PHP for Mac OS X. Like its Windows counterpart, the Moodle distributions for Mac OS X (10.4 or higher) are only intended for local installations and not for production environments. There is also a link on the download site for Mac server installation.
Moodle4Mac is available as universal binaries in XAMPP and MAMP versions, which are located at download.moodle.org/macosx. The XAMPP version has a smaller footprint and uses the new innoDB engine, but requires an additional installation step. The choice seems to come down to personal preference.
Once downloaded, follow these steps:
- Double-click on the downloaded DMG file to start the installation. This ...
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