Posted by spencer.china on May 19, 2009 at 8:42am
Hi
Just wondering whether it is possible to develop a drupal site under the Mac OSX environment but later host it under a Linux/Window server? I know it's weird but finding a Mac OSX hosting service in Hong Kong is damn hard. Unless someone can advice me where I can find one here in Hong Kong.
Thanks in advance.
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Mac OS X and Linux are both
Mac OS X and Linux are both descendants of Unix. They're largely the same under the hood.
Drupal requires PHP, a web server (Apache, NginX, or Lighttpd, etc.), and a database (MySQL preferably, or PostgreSQL). PHP, web servers, and databases will all run on Windoze, Linux or OS X.
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Dave Hansen-Lange
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Advomatic LLC
East Asia Office
Hong Kong
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Thanks Dave Just not
Thanks Dave
Just not familiar with Linux at all. So it's OK to develop the application under OS X and then later upload it to a Linux production server. Will there be any cliches?
In theory there should be no
In theory there should be no glitches, but anything with computers involved means there are almost always glitches.
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Dave Hansen-Lange
Web Developer
Advomatic LLC
East Asia Office
Hong Kong
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Dave Hansen-Lange
Director of Technical Strategy, Advomatic.com
Pronouns: he/him/his
:) I love the way you put
:) I love the way you put it. Thanks so much.
XAMPP & VMWare
To have Linux "inside" a Mac, I use VMWare + a Linux virtual machine.
Without the Linux dependency but just want to have a development environment on Mac, I use XAMPP.
To migrate development snapshot to production is another (complex) topic.
better
You can use http://www.virtualbox.org/ instead of vmware. It's open source and you can run different os (like ubuntu, xp, OpenBSD, Solaris...).
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