#MAMP WORDPRESS SETUP HOW TO#
#MAMP WORDPRESS SETUP MAC OSX#
#MAMP WORDPRESS SETUP INSTALL#

For simplicity’s sake, all the screenshots are for the Mac, which is the operating system I’m using as I write this article.

#MAMP WORDPRESS SETUP HOW TO#

Let’s now go over how to configure MAMP correctly. Wait for the installation to complete and the confirmation message to appear. Now you will see a summary screen if everything is correct proceed with the installation.

#MAMP WORDPRESS SETUP INSTALL#

In the next steps you will be asked to choose in which Start Menu folder to install the application and whether or not you want to create a desktop icon. In most cases there will be no need for the paid version.Ĭhoose where to install MAMP, my advice is to leave the default folder. The free version is complete, obviously it has some features less than the paid version, but it is still a complete software. MAMP is available in two versions, one free and one paid.

PHP, but can also sater for Perl or Python.

MySQL, the database usually used on the web.

Apache, the web server (although you can choose Nginx as the webserver).

#MAMP WORDPRESS SETUP MAC OSX#

Mac OSX (although now also available for Windows).This is a dedicated WordPress solution that makes all the operations very easy. If you simply want to install WordPress locally check out the article where we talk about Local. In this way we can develop our web applications locally, and then and once they are tested and working upload them to the server.Īlthough we provide tools on our WordPress hosting that allow us to manage WordPress easily, it is a convenience to be able to have WordPress locally to speed up development tasks. We will be able to run php files without the need to upload them to a remote server. MAMP is an application that allows us to create a local server in a few simple steps. View your local site with other devices.By Stopping MAMP and restarting and going to Preferences then Ports and clicking Set MAMP ports to default. To see these sites change the port numbers back to the default. If you created sites with the default port numbers (88) these sites will not come up because of the change. Go ahead and create your WordPress site and then multisite. The root document folder url will change from localhost:8888/ to localhost without any port numbers in the URL. Each server must be assigned a unique port. Go to Ports.Ĭlick the “Set Web & MySQL ports to 80 & 3306”. As you need the URL to look like this: without the :8888 Apache port number. Then you need to change the Ports numbers. If you plan on creating a WordPress Multisite through MAMP Inserting Database name – name of the database you just created, User name “root”, Password “root” and Host “localhost”. – Beginning the install of a new WordPress site. Tools -> PHPMyAdmin to create a new database for the new installation of WordPress.

Selecting the new renamed WordPress folder. – Going to the url which shows the htdocs root content. Moving the unzipped folder to htdocs (document root folder) and renaming it.

– Download of WordPress selfhosted software. – Copying MAMP 2 – db and htdocs folder with contents over to MAMP 3 folder. – Renaming the existing MAMP 2 folder to MAMP-old, so that it will not be overwritten by the new installation. The video tutorial shows how to do these things:

Mamp wordpress setup