[karelapple]

I use XAMMP on my G5 for Servoy database development.
What I would like to have is have AppleScript startup XAMPP automaticly with a startup script.

This is what I manually do:

1. Go to a Terminal shell and login as the system administrator root:

sudo su

2. enter root password

3. Call this command to start XAMPP:

/Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/mampp start


How do I get this in an AppleScript?

[jay3ld]

do you really need to login into admin to do this?

cuss otherwise using this applescript would start it easy
tell application "mampp"
activate
end tell

Im sure you could do the same to terminal but I wouldn't know how to insert text...
google search might bring that up.

[karelapple]

Originally Posted by jay3ld

do you really need to login into admin to do this?

Hi Jay! Yeah.. when I hit enter after sudo su, I need to enter my password....

[jay3ld]

No,
I was saying couldn't you just do
/Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/mampp start

to start it up?

[karelapple]

Originally Posted by jay3ld

/Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/mampp start

This doesn't work if I only put this line in the ScriptEditor window

tell application "mampp"
activate
end tell

Doesn't work either, I recieve a 'select application' dialog after running the script, it's asking which application is able to run mampp.

Mampp needs to be started up with the Terminal, but not like this...

[jay3ld]

Try This:

do shell script "/Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/mampp start" with administrator privileges

Got it from here:
http://www.osxfaq.com/Tutorials/as_unix/index2.ws
also this might help:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...04120314311760