Install Apache PHP and MySQL on your Mountain Lion OS

Currently, there seems to be a lack of posts out there on how to get Mac Mountain Lion setup with a *AMP stack. I mean, there’s a lot of posts out there, but they’re not all helpful. The best post I’ve found is this – so I’ll be jumping into this as soon as I get apache working. Let’s try and consolidate that because at present – this mac ignorant (re: me) – has looked at too much junk to just get a dev stack running on his laptop

Mountain Lion, and a few previous versions – already have Apache and PHP installed. So absolute win on that front. Sadly when you search for MAMP or Mac Apache PHP MySQL – all you end up with is 3 odd packages you can “install” to give you what you already mostly have. Massive PITA imo.

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It's funny how you can never really seem to find shit on the internet that you want.  Problem occured after starting my new firewall software on my mini-linux box here at home, my no-ip service simply failed to work.

Seemed odd to me because my box could indeed connect to the address dynupdate.no-ip.com (which as far as I could tell, was a standard web-page response on port 80).

Well it turns out it's actually port 8245 that you need to open in your firewall (not your router folks, tired of people on forums telling others they need to "port forward" to get a fix for this.)

Error is as follows (and this was about a verbose as I got from the program).

# noip2 -C
Auto configuration for Linux client of no-ip.com.
Can't connect to dynupdate.no-ip.com (Connection timed out)
Network must be operational to create configfile. Ending!

Hope this fix is indexed quickly, as it took forever to find anyone with the right port for the program.