setup an ftp server with mamp pro

Question

I am currently using mamp pro on osx for local development and I want to mirror my mosso cloud setup as much as possible. has anyone setup an ftp server with their local installation of mamp pro using sites i.e. local.mydev.com through apache?

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Answer 1

heres how to do it: http://blog-en.mamp.info/2009/08/how-to-access-ftp-with-mamp.html

found the instructions on Mamps site

Answer 2

Not with MAMP Pro but I've done it with XAMPP. It comes with proftpd which is a good ftp server. If you can switch, you might want to give XAMPP a try.