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Installing WordPress on your own Computer

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Thank you for your help. I was able to download MAMP. According to the instructions I am click on MAMP (not MAMP Pro) and drag to the applications folder. When I click on MAMP there’s just a pop up that takes me to a web page about the MAMP cloud; there’s nothing that launching MAMP.app. That was not an option for me to click. What am I doing wrong?

If you’re running MAMP you need to create a database in order for WP to work. The startup page should run you thru the how to.

Here’s an article to help guide you.

https://wpshout.com/quick-guides/how-to-install-mamp-on-your-mac/

Okay I was able to download MAMP but for some reason when the MAMP dashboard comes up there’s no option for preferences. My options are Cloud “Open Web Start page” and “Start Servers.” I clicked start servers and both Apache Server and MySQL Server have green dots next to them.
I’ve downloaded Word Press and it’s in applications but when I try to move the Word Press folder to the MAMP icon nothing happens.

Nothing will happen. Its not a magic app. You have to locate the htdocs folder inside MAMP.

Once you do you’ll create folders inside the htdocs folder for all your projects.

htdocs –
– dev_one/wordpress files here
– dev_two/wordpress files here

Unzip WP load all the WP files in however many installs you want to do.

I sent you the url. Follow the directions.

OKay, thank, I think I got it now. The only problem is it automatically went to MAMP Pro and I don’t want to pay for it. Is there way to change it back to just MAMP or will it do that automatically after the free trial ends?

It will not go to MAMP Pro (unless you installed PRO). It just goes to an ad to upgrade to MAMP PRO. You first have to get your feet wet with MAMP itself before upgrading to PRO.

Besides the first window that opens is a started window. You don’t do anything there.
This page is just welcoming you. https://imgur.com/JZPuVEO and giving you all your local install info.

Again, read the tutorial I sent you and you’ll be good to go. I doubt you installed MAMP Pro.

I have downloaded WordPress and the instructions tell me that I need to unzip it; how do I do that? Sorry if that’s a stupid question.

No question is ever stupid. You’ll need a special software to unzip it depending on what type of computer you use.

Instructions

Windows

MacBook

Thank you. I downloaded the software for MacBook but it doesn’t appear to really do anything. I went ahead and compressed the WordPress files and now have WordPress.zip but when I click on it, it says extracting files and then creates a WordPress2 file. What do I need to do now?

You’re confusing folder with file. Anything that’s a blue icon is a folder. So the wordpress2 is the folder that contains all the WP files.

Okay so then what do I do with the WordPress2 folder then? Sorry I’m so confused. I greatly appreciate all of your help.

Rename it to whatever you want. Like I said up above. myproject-one or website-one

Then drag it into the htdocs folder of MAMP. From there you may need to follow instructions from someone on Youtube or an article somewhere. That will be easier than me typing for two hours. ??

Thank you so much. A tutorial on YouTube was a huge help! However when I go to click on “My Website” instead of loading WordPress it says “Index of/” and then shows a list of things the first being “.localized” and then it lists several documents that I don’t want on my website. I did a search on these forums about this and it mentioned that it often means the “index.php” didn’t get moved into the htc folder with all of the WordPress files. However I checked and the “index.php” is there with the rest of the WordPress files. Do you have any idea what is wrong?

Take a screenshot of your directory and post it here. Did you connect to a database and install WordPress?