Mamp For Mac

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MAMP stands for My Apache MySQL PHP. It help its users set up personal web server and manage websites locally on their Mac or Windows computers. It brings web developers the freedom to design websites offline at first and easily transfer websites to web host provider later. You can install MAMP on Mac or Windows according to your OS. In this guide, we will discuss how to install MAMP on Mac OS X step by step, how to set up Apache server, PHP, ports, MySQL database server on your local Mac computer.

Dec 27, 2017  Download & Setup MAMP. I recommend using MAMP for local installations of WordPress on a Mac. First things first, you need to download MAMP (Mac Apache MySQL PHP) which you can get for free from their website by clicking on the nifty button below. MAMP is an application you can install on your Mac which allows you to have access to a local PHP server and MySQL server. Essentially, MAMP gives you all of the tools you need to run WordPress on your machine, for development and testing purposes.

How to Install MAMP on Mac?

How To Setup Mamp For Mac

MAMP is an application you can install on your Mac which allows you to have access to a local PHP server and MySQL server. Essentially, MAMP gives you all of the tools you need to run WordPress on your machine, for development and testing purposes.

  1. In this guide, we will discuss how to install MAMP on Mac OS X step by step, how to set up Apache server, PHP, ports, MySQL database server on your local Mac computer. How to Install MAMP on Mac? MAMP for Mac comes with two versions, a free version and a Pro version which cost $59. In this tutorial we will focus on the free version.
  2. Originally made for Mac, MAMP is a similar program with XAMPP, that allows to setup a web server on your home computer, now available for Windows users too. It installs Apache server with many essential modules included (SSL, Auth.), MySQL database, PHP with essential libraries included, Python and Perl. PhpMyAdmin is available in paid version that also includes unlimited number of virtual.
  3. How to install WordPress on your computer (and where to store it) And how to use MAMP in the future with other sites you’d like to test; If this sounds overwhelming, don’t worry. I’ll break everything down step-by-step, with screenshots and additional articles you can turn to. What is MAMP? MAMP stands for Macintosh, Apache, MySQL, and PHP.
  4. MAMP is a solution stack composed of free and open-source software running with proprietary commercial software, to run dynamic web sites on computers running macOS or Windows. It can be used to develop web sites that use popular current technologies, on a stand-alone desktop or laptop computer without the need for a separate web server.

MAMP for Mac comes with two versions, a free version and a Pro version which cost $59. In this tutorial we will focus on the free version. You will learn how to install MAMP on Mac for free below.
The installing of MAMP on a Mac is pretty easy. You need to download its installation package from the official website. Here is the download link of MAMP for Mac: http://www.mamp.info/en/downloads/

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When the downloading completes, double Click on the installer and you will start the installation of MAMP for Mac.

The installation package version 3.0.5 comes with both MAMP & MAMP PRO. So if you do not change the settings and leave most of them by default, you can go through the standard installation which has both MAMP and MAMP PRO installed on your Mac.

In this case, we will install only the free MAMP version, not the premium pro version. So click on Custom from above screen and you will get a screen like this:

Check only the MAMP, uncheck MAMP Pro and continue to finish the installing.

Before you go to use it to create websites locally, you need to configure your local server with it. After you have set up the local sever for Apache and MySQL databases, you will be able to create WordPress on Mac, create Joomla on Mac, or any other websites you like.

Note: If you can’t start Apache on Mac, try to disable Web sharing from System Preferences… >> Internet & Wireless >> Sharing. If you are on OS X Mountain Lion, you may need to turn off Apache before starting MAMP.

You can now launch MAMP from Applications » MAMP.

From the above main MAMP screen, you will need to make some basic configurations to set up the local server environment including Apache, PHP, server ports, database server. Click the“Preferences” button you will get a new popup dialogue with options including: Start/stop, Ports, PHP and Apache.

Start/stop Settings:


Here you have the option to control when to start and stop local servers on your Mac computer. We suggest you to enable Start Servers when starting MAMP and Stop Servers when quitting MAMP. So each time you start MAMP, the local Apache server automatically starts on your Mac, when you close the MAMP app, you shut down the Apache server at the same time.

You can disable the check for Pro version and the start page option. The start page option can be set to your local WordPress directory, so when you start MAMP, you open your local WordPress on Mac at the same time. If you leave it to the default directory, the MAMP start page will provide you easy access to services and features such as phpMyAdmin which we will discuss in details below.

Ports Setting:


The default port number would be 8888 for Apache port, and 8889 for MySQL port. Usually you do not need to change them. If you like to custom the port numbers, make sure they are not taken by other apps on your Mac computer. If the ports are available, you can also set them to the default Apache and SQL ports on live web server on the internet.
(note: if you leave the Apache port to the default 8888, then your local site can only be visited with URL http://localhost:8888/; on the contrary, if you change it to the default Apache port 80, you can directly visit http://localhost without the port number attached. A disadvantage of using port 80 is that you need to enter your admin password each time your start your local servers created by the MAMP tool.)

PHP Settings:

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MAMP offers two different PHP versions in MAMP 3.0 for Mac. Choose the latest PHP version for maximum compatiblities with your local web applications, also higher security and more stable performance when the local sites being migrated to live server.

Apache Settings:


This is the place to set, choose or change the document root directory of your local web applications or sites on Mac hard drive. You can click the Select… button to pick up the target local site installation folder location on Mac.

Up until now, you have successfully installed MAMP on Mac and you have configured your local Apache server on Mac with supportive settings. You can go to build your local websites with MAMP now. However if your website requires MySQL databases as well, such as the famous WordPress and Joomla, you need to create databases with MAMP. See how to install WordPress on Mac with MAMP? Please refer to below steps to set up local MySQL server on Mac with MAMP.

Create a Database on Mac with MAMP

To create a local MySQL database on Mac, you can make use of the phpMyAdmin tool which comes with MAMP by default.

From the above main MAMP screen, click Open start page button, click on phpMyAdmin, you will be taken to a new screen where you are given the option to manage databases for your local sites on Mac. You will be able to create MySQL database with the phpMyAdmin tool on Mac.

Go to localhost. In the Create Database field, enter a name for the database. No spaces. In the Collation list, select utf8_general_ci. Then click Create button, your MySQL databaseon local Mac OS X will be created!

In above steps, we have set up the Apache server environment on our local Mac computer, we have set up Apache, enabled PHP and then create MySQL database. It is time to start the local website building on your Mac computer.

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Here we go through the process of starting a new Drupal website from scratch on a Mac. We begin by setting up a local server and a database, then we install Drupal Core and launch the site.

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Database setup:

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Go to http://localhost:8888/MAMP/ and under the 'Tools' menu, select 'phpMyAdmin'.

  1. Click the 'Databases' tab.
  2. Enter a name for the database.
  3. Select 'utf8_general_ci' under the 'Collation' drop-down.
  4. Click the 'Create' button.
  5. Click on the name of the new database we just created.
  6. Select 'Privileges' tab.
  7. Click 'Add user'.
  8. Enter a username into the 'User name' field.
  9. In the 'Host' field, select 'Local'.
  10. Enter a password and retype it. Leave the 'Password generate' field blank.
  11. Under the 'Database for User' section, select only 'Grant all privileges on database yourdatabasename'.
  12. Click the 'Go' button in the lower right.

Don't forget to save the name of the database, as well as the username and password.

Drupal Core setup:

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  • Download the Drupal Core folder, and then rename the downloaded folder for your project.

  • In Terminal, 'cd' to your project directory and then run these two commands:

cp sites/default/default.settings.php sites/default/settings.php

chmod -R a+w sites/default

  • Set your server's document root to your project directory and navigate to http://localhost:8888/ to follow the Drupal installation instructions.
  1. Select the 'Standard' install, click 'Save and Continue'.
  2. Select 'English' as the language, click 'Save and Continue'.
  3. Under the 'Set up databases' tab, select 'MySQL, MariaDB, or equivalent' and then fill in your database name, and the username and password you just created in phpMyAdmin. Then click 'Save and Continue'. This links your Drupal site to its database - this is not the account you will use to login and administer your site.
  4. Under the 'Configure site' tab, pick a site name (like 'My First Drupal Site') and enter your email address.
  5. Enter details to create a site maintenance account, and make sure to save this Drupal username and password too with your database username and password.. This is the account you will use to log in and administer your Drupal site, and it is a pain to change the username and password later.
  6. At the bottom select the country and timezone. Then click 'Save and Continue'.
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    First for MAC users, let's install MAMP.

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    We can find it by simplyGoogling the word MAMP.

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    And under the first result,click on the Downloads link.

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    Select MAC OS X andthen click on the Download button.

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    When it's finished, unzip your download,

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    run the included .pkg installer andthat's it.

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    Let's run our server.

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    Go to Applications/MAMP, not MAMP pro,

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    and launch the MAMP application.

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    A pop-up window opens on first launch.

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    Uncheck the option that says, Check for

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    MAMP Pro when starting MAMP,and then click Launch MAMP.

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    You can always upgrade to MAMP Pro later.

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    It has a few nice features if you havelots of different websites you want to

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    test on your machine.

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    But for this course, you won't need it.

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    Then click Start Servers.

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    You'll see the indicators for the Apacheserver and the MySQL server light up.

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    Then you'll be automaticallytaken to the MAMP start up page

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    where we can set up our database.

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