Problem installing WP with MAMP

  • Resolved samuelclarke

    (@samuelclarke)


    18 years, 1 month ago

    I’m trying to install WordPress on my Mac localy so I can create a theme, but I’m not having any luck with it!

    I’ve installed MAMP and it’s running fine and all the settings are fine from what I can see. I’ve put the info – ‘DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress’ ‘DB_USER’, ‘root’ ‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘root’ ‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost:8889’ – in the “wp-config-sample.php” and saved it as “wp-config.php” in the root (WP) folder. But when I open the /wp-admin/install.php file it gives me a message saying that it can’t find the “wp-config.php” file.

    BTW, I’ve been following Michael Doig’s tutorial on setting up MAMP and WordPress – and yes the WP folder is in the “htdocs” folder in the “MAMP” folder which is in the Applications folder! ??

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  • Why are you putting localhost:8889? It’s actually 8888 and you can just put localhost and it will work fine.

    You also don’t need to go to wp-admin/install.php, you could just go to localhost:8888 and it should know the wp-config.php isn’t created yet.

    Thread Starter samuelclarke

    (@samuelclarke)

    Thanks for that! Everything is up and running. ??

    Wanna mark this one resolved up top then? Thanks.

    Sorry to re-open the thread. I’m trying to do the same thing and I’m getting the same error plus:

    The safest way is to manually create the file.”, “WordPress ? Error”); } require_once(‘../wp-config.php’); require_once(‘./upgrade-functions.php’); if (isset($_GET[‘step’])) $step = $_GET[‘step’]; else $step = 0; header( ‘Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8’ ); ?> > text_direction) ) : ?>
    WordPress
    ‘.__(‘Already Installed’).’

    ‘.__(‘You appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear your old database tables first.’).’
    ‘); switch($step) { case 0: ?>

    ReadMe documentation at your leisure.’), ‘../readme.html’); ?>

    I’ve tried deleting and re-creating the database and the config file, but still the same error.

    Any suggestions apreciated.

    Neill W

    Appear to have to working now, I didn’t understand the relevance of the localhost:8888 link. For anyone else thick like me, the full URL is:

    https://localhost:8888/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php

    Regards,

    Neill W

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