Or is that the first thing I should have tried? P.S. When MAMP is setting up the Apache server, it fails the first few attempts and displays "Could not wait for starting of Apache child. Apache parent process id is: 7332" or some other four-digit number. It eventually works, but is this related?
MAMP (Mac, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl or Python) works very well on Mac OS X; not available on any other platforms.For the most part, choosing between the two is going to be a matter of whether you're using Windows or Mac. As a Mac user, I find the interface for MAMP much simple...