Almost Done Installation Please Help!

  • Ok, I haven’t been able to get an answer to this for 3 days and I desperately need to get this figured out, like everyone else I guess. lol. So if someone could Please help me I would really appreciate it! Installing WP on a mac : )

    I am following the instructions at: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Installing_WordPress_Locally_on_Your_Mac_With_MAMP
    and stuck on Question #4.

    Now it’s time to download WordPress. from: https://www.ads-software.com/ Once you’ve downloaded and unzipped the WordPress download, open up the “wordpress” folder. Click and drag all of the files from the wordpress folder to your MAMP document root. I use (/Users/USERNAME/Sites/wordpress/).

    I am unclear, do I take all of the WordPress files from the WordPress Folder and put them into the wordpress folder I created at: /Users/USERNAME/Sites/wordpress/

    Please explain if this is correct and why this is done?

    Lastly, we’ve got to run WordPress’ famous 5-minute install. Visit your local site (localhost:port or localhost:port/wordpress), and enter the following information into the database setup form:

    database name: wordpress
    database host/server: localhost
    database user: root
    database password: root

    What do they mean above by: “Visit your local site (localhost:port or localhost:port/wordpress) How do I find this?

    Thanks

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  • Click and drag all of the files from the wordpress folder to your MAMP document root.

    the root is not /wordpress – that is a folder off of the root
    localhost is the root – put all files and folders inside of wordpress folder there

    Visit your local site (localhost:port or

    typically this will be
    https://localhost
    or
    https://localhost:80
    if install needs the port number

    Hi there,

    I’m trying to get wordpress to work on my mac, and all is well, but I cannot find my ‘localsite’, and the two links above do not work?
    Any tips

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