#Mamp pro troubleshooting mac os x#
#Mamp pro troubleshooting install#
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#Mamp pro troubleshooting install#

Others with the default MAMP install should rename and drag the folder to the htdocs folder, located under /Applications/MAMP. Click and drag all of the files from the wordpress folder to your MAMP document root (I use /Users/USERNAME/Sites/wordpress/).

Once you've downloaded and unzipped the WordPress download, open up the 'wordpress' folder. Step 4: Downloading and Installing WordPress Under 'Create new database', enter in a database name such as 'wordpress', and press 'Create.' No need to choose an option for 'collation' : it will automatically be assigned by MySQL when the database tables are created, during the WordPress installation. Once that's open, select phpMyAdmin from the webpage. If not, click on 'Open start page' in the MAMP window. Once the MAMP servers start, the MAMP start page should open in your default web browser. To start the MAMP Apache and MySQL servers, simply click 'Start Servers' from the main MAMP screen. Step 3: Starting MAMP Servers & Creating The Database Once you're done editing all of the settings, hit OK to save them. An example of a document root is /Users/USERNAME/Sites/wordpress/. This is where all of your files are going to be for your local web server. Lastly, on the Web Server tab, you'll need to set a document root. The downside of using port 80 as your MAMP Apache port is that you'll always be asked for your password. If you'd like to leave the port number out of the URL, change the Apache port to 80. If you use this configuration, you shouldn't get asked for your password, but you'd need to include the port number in the URL (localhost:8888). Next, click over to 'Ports.' The default MAMP ports are 8888 for Apache, and 8889 for MySQL. Once you open MAMP, click the Preferences button. This is required because MAMP needs to run two processes: mysqld (MySQL) and httpd (Apache), and depending on the settings you set for those processes, you may or may not need to input your password. While you're editing settings, MAMP might prompt you for an administrator password.

Now that you've got MAMP installed on your system, launch MAMP.app (located at /Applications/MAMP/MAMP.app). Drag the MAMP folder ( not MAMP PRO - we'll save that walk-through for another time) to the Applications folder. Once the MAMP download is complete, double-click the MAMP disk image (it should be something like MAMP_2.0.3.dmg), and you should get a MAMP window pop up.

#Mamp pro troubleshooting mac os x#

MAMP requires that your Mac be running Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later.

#Mamp pro troubleshooting manual#

You can accomplish this in different ways, but the other ways aren't nearly as simple (see MacOS_X_Local_Mirror for the long, manual version of installing PHP and MySQL on your Mac).īefore you can install MAMP on your Mac, you'll need to download it from the MAMP website. Essentially, MAMP gives you all of the tools you need to run WordPress on your machine, for development and testing purposes.

MAMP is an application you can install on your Mac which allows you to have access to a local PHP server and MySQL server. MAMP stands for Macintosh, Apache, MySQL, and PHP.

5 Step 4: Downloading and Installing WordPress.

4 Step 3: Starting MAMP Servers & Creating The Database.