Prerequisites

In preparation for this presentation, I've done a fresh install of Mac OS X Tiger on an external drive and patched it up to the latest version. I've also installed a few programs that I use in web development and server configuration, including (but not limited to):

• BBEdit (also alternative text editors like SubEthaEdit and TextWrangler, the latter being free);
• Macromedia Studio MX 8 - for this exercise, only Dreamweaver MX 8 will be used;
• mySQL;
• phpMyAdmin.

Can it get easier than this?

The quickest way to enable the web server on your Mac is by going to System Preferences>Sharing, and then ticking the Personal Web Sharing tick box, as shown below:

Note that this will allow you to access your server via these urls:  read more »