Having recently gained access to some souped up 24in iMac’s at uni, I’ve been wanting to do some web development work on them, but they are severely locked down and restricted, which means there’s no way I can install any additional software.
In comes Abyss Web Server which allows you to run a webserver + php off a USB stick (with minimal configuration and zero installation). They’ve also got some good instructions on how to add server-side scripting functionality like PHP, Perl, Ruby on Rails and even ASP without ever touching the System Files (which are usually locked down in a public terminal).
(Note: I haven’t figured out how to get mysql working just yet, but stay tuned. I’ll have something ready soon.)
