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Boris_iSpace
Posted on # April 28, 2014, 7:49 pm
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I just started using AMPPS (switched over from XAMPP) and what I would like to do is the following: I develop websites on both a Windows and a Mac machine (I want to keep it that way). I have a shared drive (Google Drive) on both machines. I would like to use a shared AMPPS installation, so I can make changes to my websites in development from both machines.
The Windows part of the installation worked fine, but the Mac installation (which I was hoping wouldn't be necessary, but I can't start the ampps.exe from the Mac) automatically installs in the Applications folder, which I cannot change.
Is there some way I can point the AMPPS www folder to the AMPPS/www folder on the Google drive, so I can trick OSX into working with that directory instead of the default installed one?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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tidus
Posted on # April 30, 2014, 5:47 am | Post: 1
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Hi,

Instead of placing whole Ampps installation in Dropbox i would recommend to share only the www directory. Although I doubt MySQL Database can be shared.

You can create a symlink to share www in Mac

Code

mv /Applications/AMPPS/www /path/to/dropbox/www
ln -s /path/to/dropbox/www /Applications/AMPPS/www





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Boris_iSpace
Posted on # April 30, 2014, 1:41 pm | Post: 2
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Thank you tidius! The www part I have working now, but not MySQL, so the website generates a database connection error. I tried changing the MySQL config file paths, but that doesn't work. Do you have any idea how this could be done?
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Boris_iSpace
Posted on # April 30, 2014, 1:43 pm | Post: 3
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Thank you tidus! The www part I have working now, but not MySQL, so the website generates a database connection error. I tried changing the MySQL config file paths, but that doesn't work. Do you have any idea how this could be done?
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tidus
Posted on # April 30, 2014, 2:14 pm | Post: 4
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Hi,

If operating systems were same you could have shared mysql data as well. I don't know if mysql data folder of Windows will work on Mac or vice-versa.

You will have to maintain database on both the server. Not sure though, you can look for solutions online.


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