MAMP Pro
I have earlier tried to use the free MAMP and found it to be useful but it had some drawbacks such as not being able to
- Start servers on system startup
- Easy configuration
The solution to all of this is obviously to use MAMP Pro who have all of these features but it also costs $59 to register. Perhaps not that much but nevertheless still too much for me. Also the fact that there is a pro alternative made me feel that I was missing something and it was not that obvious how to tune everything in the free version of MAMP. I have used XAMPP instead as it just felt easier to tune and it was available for free. Anyway some days ago MacUpdate Promo had an offer for registering MAMP Pro for 51% off the regular price and now I felt that the price was more for my pocket and I registered MAMP Pro. I must admit that I really never had tested MAMP PRO earlier as I always was opting for the free standard version.
To my surprise everything just worked perfectly. I could not complain on anything. I could even get the postfix working. I am really a happy user of MAMP Pro. The only problem that I did have was with the postfix setup and that was due to the fact that my ISP at home blocked port 25. After some unsuccessful searches on the internet I managed to solve the problem by myself. The solution was to add the new port number 26 separated by a colon (:) to Host. In my case it was just to add :26 at the end of the Host in the postfix “Smart Host” configuration.
