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create websites on macbook pro

i have macbook pro lion os x

I have got some code from html 5 training i took.. It has html code, .js files, .css files, aspx files etc...

How can i host it on my macbook pro lion osx

Is windows IIS available for macbook ?

please help

thanks a lot

Scott Fell

You can use mamp http://www.mamp.info/en/index.html or http://bitnami.com/stack/mamp

To use windows, you would need to make a partition with bootcamp, then buy windows 7 and install on the bootcamp partition. You can also use virtualization from http://www.parallels.com/landingpage/pd/windows-on-mac/? or http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/ or a free open source https://www.virtualbox.org/

Any of these solutions would only be for local development and not to host a site.

J N

Agreed!

alternatively you can use free hosting sites such as google sites and upload the content there. Then you can install different softwares to edit and upload the content. The beauty behind having it up in the interweb is convenience.

using a free hosting site may be a lot easier then setting up a partition

FFT

Dave Baldwin

"aspx files" Require IIS and Windows. They won't run on Mac OSX and Apache.

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serialband

@Scott Fell
OSX does have Apache installed. It's just no longer available to be enabled in the System Preferences. Too many users enable them by accident and open themselves up to remote attacks. It's probably better that they forced it back on the command line where it belongs, so that only admins that know a little more can still enable them.
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You can run aspx on Apache. You don't have to install Virtualbox, Parallels, VMWare or Bootcamp and spend extra money on Windows, unless you really want to.

You'll first need to download Mono, the open source .Net Development platform. http://download.mono-project.com/archive/3.2.6/macos-10-x86/MonoFramework-MRE-3.2.6.macos10.xamarin.x86.pkg
http://www.go-mono.com/mono-downloads/download.html

After you've installed it and configured Apache, you'll be able to serve up your aspx files on your Mac running Apache.

If you're on Windows, you could install apache and just install/enable mod_aspdotnet. You don't have to use IIS unless you want to.

Eoin OSullivan

@serialband .. good point on Mono. I'd forgotten about that project and it is probably the best way to use the in-built Apache server on OSX and also work with the ASPX files.

There is a little bit of work to edit the Apache configuration after Mono is installed but this is still MUCH easier than having to install a VM.

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