# Setting up Apache on localhost vs. using mamp on a Mac

**URL:** <https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/setting-up-apache-on-localhost-vs-using-mamp-on-a-mac/4473>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [August 26, 2020, 2:45am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/setting-up-apache-on-localhost-vs-using-mamp-on-a-mac/4473 "2020-08-26T02:45:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![randyrie](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.pinegrow.com/randyrie/32/2103_2.png) [@randyrie](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/randyrie)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2020, 2:45am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/setting-up-apache-on-localhost-vs-using-mamp-on-a-mac/4473/1 "2020-08-26T02:45:15Z")

</div>

I’m going to be replacing my old Macbook Pro with a 2019 model and am wondering if it would be better to setup the new Macbook as its own localhost server to run Apache, PHP & MySql or use MAMP to setup the environment with one ‘easy’ install. Does Pinegrow work well with MAMP or MAMP PRO as a server environment? Can anyone in the PG community using PG with MAMP pass along their opinions and advice?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![RobM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@RobM](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/RobM)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2020, 11:50am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/setting-up-apache-on-localhost-vs-using-mamp-on-a-mac/4473/2 "2020-08-26T11:50:45Z")

</div>

I’ve had good luck with using MAMP along with Pinegrow for Wordpress or static sites that have php components. You have to refresh the MAMP side when you make changes or export your theme, but they play together well.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![AllMediaLab](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.pinegrow.com/allmedialab/32/2079_2.png) [@AllMediaLab](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/AllMediaLab)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2020, 12:27pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/setting-up-apache-on-localhost-vs-using-mamp-on-a-mac/4473/3 "2020-08-26T12:27:01Z")

</div>

And there are many free auto refresh plugins for Chrome and Firefox like this:

> **[Super Easy Auto Refresh](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/super-easy-auto-refresh/globgafddkdlnalejlkcpaefakkhkdoa?hl=en)**
>
> Automatically reload and refresh web pages in simplest way.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![mxs](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.pinegrow.com/mxs/32/2943_2.png) [@mxs](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/mxs)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2020, 10:34am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/setting-up-apache-on-localhost-vs-using-mamp-on-a-mac/4473/4 "2020-09-01T10:34:21Z")

</div>

Mac OS comes with PHP. Setting up localhost on a Mac and creating a folder called ‘websites’ is dead easy (lots of tutorials on the web) and - what I can’t understand even with the latest version of Pinegrow it cannot use localhost.  
The preview on my old Coda 2 can do this  
As you can download MySQL for free - there really is no need to use MAMP

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Emmanuel](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.pinegrow.com/emmanuel/32/6294_2.png) [@Emmanuel](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/Emmanuel)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2020, 11:21am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/setting-up-apache-on-localhost-vs-using-mamp-on-a-mac/4473/5 "2020-09-01T11:21:08Z")

</div>

True, but modern web dev. is not only about a web server and an old version of PHP without extensions 😉

It is very useful to be able to install MAMP or Local.app or Xamp and so on to benefit from the many helpers / tools / last versions of the libraries and more available with these solutions.