Installing on Mac using MAMP 2.1.2

  • Bailey

    (@chadbailey31gmailcom)


    11 years, 12 months ago

    Needing some help getting WordPress installed and would greatly appreciate any info.

    I install MAMP in the applications folder. In the MAMP preferences, Ports tab, I set Apache port to 8888, MySQL port to 8889, in PHP tab set PHP version to 5.4.10 and Cache to XCache, in Apache tab set doc root to Applications/MAmP/htdocs/wordpress.

    In the phpMyAdmin, I select the Databases tab and create a new database called WordPress.

    Next, I download WordPress and put the folder in Applications/MAMP/htdocs.

    Using Text Edit, I open the wp-config-sample.php file in the wordpress folder, and update the DB_NAME to ‘wordpress’, the DB_USER to ‘root’, the DB_PASSWORD to ‘root’ and the DB_HOST to ‘localhost:8889’. I save the file as wp-config.php in the wordpress folder.

    Finally, I enter attempt to open https://localhost:8888/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php, but the browser displays a Not Found message.

    Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?

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  • I am using WAMP and when I create a database, the password is generally left blank. Username is ‘root’, password I leave blank.

    Just a thought.

    Thread Starter Bailey

    (@chadbailey31gmailcom)

    Thanks, Pattersonweb.

    When I enter the address localhost:8888/MAMP, the browser loads a page that says “Welcome to MAMP. If you can see this page, MAMP is installed on your Mac and everything is working.” So I don’t think the password is an issue in this case.

    Any other ideas?

    Hi Baily,
    Patterson is right. The thing to remember is, just because mamp loads the page doesn’t mean that it’s not a password. It just means that it has the correct password, or it doesn’t connect to a mysql database.

    Use phpmyadmin to create a new database and user for wordpress. I suggest this instead of using root because giving a site root access to your database isn’t the best idea.

    Best of luck!

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