Hi, I have MAMP on my MacBook Air and want to install Laravel and virtual box. Is it OK if I don't install LAMP?

Hi Marilyn,

MAMP is essentially LAMP but just on different operating systems.

The nice thing about Laravel is that it has its own virtual environment you can use called Homestead. Homestead is fairly easy to set and use and is well documented on www.laravel.com. So if you are using Virtual Box, Vagrant and Homestead you won't need to worry about setting up the LAMP server as this is done for you.

If you already have MAMP installed then you actually don't need to install Vagrant Box or Vagrant if your happy with using your MAMP as your main environment. You can set the MAMP php as your main php in the terminal fairly easily. Also if you have MAMP Pro it's very easy to set up hosts to allow you to use http://test.dev which will be directed to your larval public folder. This is one of the features of MAMP Pro.

I hope that helps a little.

Let me know if I can help further with MAMP as this is what I use for most of my Laravel based applications.