The simplest way to develop a Joomla! site on your local Mac OS X computer is by using MAMP. MAMP is short for Macintosh, Apache, MySQL, PHP. MAMP works just like an application. It is released under the GNU General Public License. You can download MAMP from Living-e AG. The download page can be found HERE.

This article is Step Two, if you missed Step One be sure to check out "Install MAMP to Run Joomla 1.5 On Your Macintosh Computer".

Current MAMP versions require Mac OS X 10.4.x or greater. If you're running Mac OS X 10.3.x you can download an earlier version of MAMP 1.4.1 (universal binary), for Intel and PowerPC.