

- #INSTALLING WORDPRESS ON MAMP HOW TO#
- #INSTALLING WORDPRESS ON MAMP INSTALL#
- #INSTALLING WORDPRESS ON MAMP PRO#
- #INSTALLING WORDPRESS ON MAMP SOFTWARE#
- #INSTALLING WORDPRESS ON MAMP PASSWORD#
This can be annoying if you are accessing the folder often and you do not have a shortcut to the folder somewhere more accessible. By default it is set to the htdocs folder in the MAMP folder in your applications folder. This section allows you to set a custom location to store your WordPress website(s) on your computer.
#INSTALLING WORDPRESS ON MAMP PASSWORD#
The only trade off is that you will need to put in your admin password to start the server when using port 80. If you click the Set Web & MySQL ports to 80 & 3306 then when you access your website, you can use the url URL instead of on the end. If your WordPress site is installed in a folder called “wpabsolute” then you can set the favorite link to “/wpabsolute” and then you will be able to click on the my favorite link to open your WordPress website.īy default, your ports will be 88.

You should set your favorite link to “/” if you have your WordPress website located in the base directory.

#INSTALLING WORDPRESS ON MAMP INSTALL#
That way you can close MAMP and your local install will still run. You do not need to run MAMP if you untick the stop servers when quitting MAMP option. If you are using MAMP often, then you should tick the Start servers option so you do not have to start it manually. Here are a couple of preferences that you might want to consider configuring: You can open preferences by going to the MAMP > Preferences… menu at the top or using the keyboard combination of ⌘, keys at the same time. There are not a lot of preferences to configure with MAMP but we recommend you customize them to your own preferences. It is very basic which makes it easy to use.
#INSTALLING WORDPRESS ON MAMP PRO#
Note: If you also installed MAMP Pro then make sure you select the right MAMP application. Go to your applications folder and click on the MAMP application inside the MAMP folder. MAMP will be installed in your Applications folder. Follow the install steps by clicking through the install process. Once the installer has finished downloading, double click it to install MAMP. Download MAMP from the MAMP websiteĬlick the Download button to download the MAMP installer. You do not need MAMP Pro to run WordPress and we will be using the free version in this tutorial. You can download just the free version of MAMP or if you need extra features then you can choose to purchase MAMP Pro.

You need to download the MAMP installer from the MAMP website download page. We will be downloading MAMP and then setting it up with the best settings to develop WordPress with.
#INSTALLING WORDPRESS ON MAMP HOW TO#
This section of the guide will walk you through how to install MAMP on your Mac computer.
#INSTALLING WORDPRESS ON MAMP SOFTWARE#
WordPress requires a server, database and PHP software to run on so MAMP is the perfect solution if you are on Mac. Most people will run MAMP on their Mac so they can quickly and easily develop their application or WordPress website without needing to continually upload to a server to see their changes.
