JohnKendrick

I don’t have anything I can readily identify on the Mac (10.6 OS) that called be called a web-root directory. The closest I see is the directory labeled “sites” which is the recommended directory for web pages.

Looks to me as if I need to go back to the installation materials and to the two books I’ve got on installing wordpress to see something I may have missed

Thanks for your help.

John

Thanks again. I’ll try it.

Does it matter where I put the wordpress files on my computer. The docs I used recommended putting them in sites/wordpress. But I don’t recall ever telling any MAMP program where the files were. Thus, when I try to run the install program in wordpress, how do the two (MAMP stuff and wordpress) know to work with one another?

Shouldn’t I have entered location material in each?

John

Michael,

Again thanks for the hand holding.

I’m doing trial and error here because I’m only following instructions so I wonder if this is what you had in mind.

I looked in the MAMP files in the conf folder and then to the apache folder to find the httpd.conf file. Assumed the problem was not wordpress but the server.

I then found the following text entry;
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml

Since your addition did not include the “.phtml” bit, I simply added your statement.

Sound right?

John

P. S. Just found time to try it out. Didn’t work. ;-(

Does that mean a reinstall of both MAMP and WordPress is the best and, perhaps, only solution?

thanks for the reply, Michael. I’m using Firefox as my browser on the Mac. When it pops up the download request, it, of course, asks, what I wish to do with the file, including, if I wish to open it, which application. I select Firefox. Doesn’t help.

What would that mean for your fix?

John

I’ve got the same problem. The install.php file either shows up as a blank or asks to be downloaded. I’m a first time user, trying to install on a localhost on my Mac Pro using MAMP.

Any obvious things I should do or look for?

One thing troubling. Most of the port info says it should be 8888. But the Start MAMP page lists 8889 as the port. Perhaps that’s the problem?

John Kendrick