fplanque: dev blog

Tested with MAMP 1.7.2, b2evolution 3.2 and Mac OS X 10.5.7 :

1. Download and install MAMP (Free) into the Applications folder
2. Start MAMP and make sure you get the MAMP start page
3. Download b2evolution and unzip it into /Applications/MAMP/htdocs
4. Point yout browser to http://localhost:8888/b2evolution/ and follow install procedure
5. When prompted for mysql username and password use "root" and "root". (the mysql host is "localhost")
6. You're up and running, but with one caveat... when displaying blogs you'll run into incomplete pages and the php error log (/Applications/MAMP/logs/php_error.log) will give you a hint:

PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted

It doesn't make much sense that MAMP would come preconfigured with only 8MB of RAM available to apps. I bet that's an easy settign to change if you buy MAMP Pro (39 €). To fix this on the free version though, open the file /Applications/MAMP/conf/php5/php.ini with TextEdit. Find the line that starts with memory_limit = and edit it as follows:

memory_limit = 32M