

- #SETING UP MAMP WORDPRESS WEBSITE ON MAC MAC OS X#
- #SETING UP MAMP WORDPRESS WEBSITE ON MAC INSTALL#
- #SETING UP MAMP WORDPRESS WEBSITE ON MAC PRO#
- #SETING UP MAMP WORDPRESS WEBSITE ON MAC TRIAL#
- #SETING UP MAMP WORDPRESS WEBSITE ON MAC PASSWORD#
You are now all set up to install WordPress locally on Mac. It is time to start the local WordPress installing on Mac computer.

In above steps, we have set up the Apache server environment on our local Mac computer, we have set up Apache, enabled PHP and then create MySQL database.
#SETING UP MAMP WORDPRESS WEBSITE ON MAC MAC OS X#
Go to localhost, then select Databases, input a new database name in the Create database section, then click Create button, your first MySQL database for WordPress on local Mac OS X will be created! You will be able to create MySQL database for WordPress with the phpMyAdmin tool. Let’s go to create the database for WordPress on your Mac now.įrom the above main MAMP screen, click Open start page button, click on phpMyAdmin, you will be taken to a new screen where you are given the option to manage databases for your local WordPress site on Mac. We have setup Apache and PHP in above steps. To create a local WordPress site on Mac, you will need to setup the PHP and MySQL for it. You can click the Select… button to pick up the target local WordPress installation on Mac. This is the place to set, choose or change the document root directory of your local WordPress installation on Mac computer hard drive. However we suggest you to choose PHP 5.3.5 which is also the default by MAMP.

Technically both of them will work with your local WordPress installation on Mac. In terms of PHP version, WordPress minimum requirement is PHP 5.2.4 or greater.
#SETING UP MAMP WORDPRESS WEBSITE ON MAC PASSWORD#
A disadvantage of using port 80 is that you need to enter your admin password each time your start your local servers created by the MAMP tool.) (note: if you leave the Apache port to the default 8888, then your local WordPress site can only be visited with URL on the contrary, if you change it to the default Apache port 80, you can directly visit without the port number attached. If the ports are available, you can also set them to the default Apache and SQL ports on production WordPress hosting servers, they are respectively. If you like to custom the port numbers, make sure they are not taken by other apps on your Mac computer. The default port number would be 8888 for Apache port, and 8889 for MySQL port.

If you leave it to the default directory, the MAMP start page will provide you easy access to phpMyAdmin. The start page option can be set to your local WordPress directory, so when you start MAMP, you open your local WordPress on Mac at the same time.
#SETING UP MAMP WORDPRESS WEBSITE ON MAC PRO#
You can disable the check for Pro version and the start page option. So each time you start MAMP, the local Apache server automatically starts on your Mac, when you close the MAMP app, you shut down the Apache server at the same time. We suggest you to enable Start Servers when starting MAMP and Stop Servers when quitting MAMP. Here you have the option to control when to start and stop local servers on your Mac computer. Click the“Preferences” button you will get a new popup dialogue with options including: Start/stop, Ports, PHP and Apache. If you are on OS X Mountain Lion, you may need to turn off Apache before starting MAMP.įrom the above main MAMP screen, you will need to make some basic configurations to set up the local server environment on which your WordPress can be installed and running with. Note: If you can’t start Apache on Mac, try to disable Web sharing from System Preferences… > Internet & Wireless > Sharing. You can now launch MAMP from Applications » MAMP. Once the MAMP download is finished, double-click the MAMP disk image, drag the MAMP folder to the Applications folder, not the MAMP PRO. MAMP can be used stand-alone without MAMP PRO.
#SETING UP MAMP WORDPRESS WEBSITE ON MAC TRIAL#
This download package contains the free MAMP and a free 14-day trial of MAMP PRO. Do this one by one inside your wordpress database.How to Install and Configure MAMP Server for Local WordPress on Mac?īefore you can install WordPress on Mac with MAMP, you need to download the MAMP from. Notes: If you find any old urls in your site, (Broken urls to media items) You can do a search and replace in database using the following sql queries. (Before this, you need to change document root to this wordpress folder by using preferences in MAMP) You will get your site. Create a database in new host with same database name and import the. Copy wp-content folder and wp_config.php from old site and Paste it under new wordpress folder.(Replace the files)Ĥ. Extract wordpress.zip file downloaded from to MAMP/htdocs.ģ. Export the database using phpmyadmin interface and save that as a. You can copy a site to localhost in an alternative way without using any extra plugin.
