I wish I had found this information sooner. In Matt Stoker's class for iPhone Development, he discusses a tool called MAMP. MAMP gives you the ability to provide you with a quick and dirty "server" on your machine without having to worry about how to setup Apache, PHP, and MySQL. Place the MAMP folder in your applications directory, and double click MAMP. BAM! Your machine is now running MySQL, PHP, and Apache instantly. This was great to find, because awhile back I was looking at how to setup a test environment for an iPhone application to talk to a server without having to have something on the internet, or waste another 1 - 2 days to get a server up and running with the AMP (Apache, MySQL, PHP) approach. I happen to waste about 4 - 6 hours trying to figure out how to setup an AMP, but I tried to do it on a virtual machine, and be able to reach the virtual machine. I found out this was out of my knowledge base, so I gave up.
Check it out if you are having problems trying to contact a web service or url on a server out in the "cloud".
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