Common MAMP Problems and how to solve them So, let’s take a look at some common MAMP Problems. If it has failed to turn in to green, that is a problem.ĭon’t panic It is easy to solve the problem without banging our heads against the wall :P. So, you can skip the rest of the lesson and directly go to the "How to install WordPress" lesson. If everything went well, it would turn green, and you are good to go with WordPress installation. You'll find a start button on the top-right corner of the MAMP window. Next, find the MAMP directory and get inside it. In my case, it's the Applications directory on my Mac. So, go to the directory where MAMP is installed. Starting the serversįor us to install WordPress, we have to start both Apache and Database servers first.Īnd for that, we have to open up the MAMP software. You can safely hit the “Move to Trash button” as you no longer need it.Īlright, now that we have installed MAMP, it installed a web server and a database server for us.Īnd, finally, it's time to □ them up. If your Mac is running on the latest macOS High Sierra or higher, it will ask whether you want to move the “MAMP & MAMP PRO” installer to the trash. MAMP Installation double confirmation MAMP writing files to the diskĪnd there we go. If your Mac is password protected, It will ask you to approve the installation.Įnter the password or use your Touch ID if you own the latest MacBook Pro to start the installation process. You can change this if you want to but I am happy with the default location, so, I will just hit the "Install" button. The whole purpose of the "Installation Type" screen is to give you a choice about where to install MAMP inside your Mac.īy default, Mac installs MAMP inside the Applications directory. Hit continue for one last time to get into the Installation Type section. So most of the time, you’ll only see a single disk where you can install the MAMP. Unlike a Windows Machine, Mac does not come with multiple partitions on a single hard drive. If you are ok with the terms, hit agree and continue to the Destination Select section. MAMP will open up a “license agreement” dialogue box. Once you have landed on the License section, read the license and hit the Continue button. Once you have read the important information, click the continue button again to proceed forward to the License section. MAMP Installation Start ScreenĬlick the continue button to proceed forward to the Read Me section. Once you have the download, click on the downloaded pkg file to bring up the MAMP installation start screen. So, when you hit install, You’ll also install MAMP Pro along with MAMP Free version.Īnyway, it does not get in our way. Like it or not, the MAMP website forces us to install both Free and Pro versions under a single download. If you notice the file size, it is huge, It is around 360 MB. This lesson is all about the free version of MAMP.īasically, with MAMP Pro, you’ll get a lot of time-saving features along with the features of the MAMP Free version.įor example, if you notice the above screenshot, there is another tool called MAMP Viewer and when combined with the features of MAMP Pro, it will let us test our websites on Mobiles without much effort. What is MAMP Pro?Īs the name suggests, It is a premium version of MAMP. When the Apache and MySQL servers are turned on, only then we can access our local WordPress website.Īnyway, let’s go ahead to download and install MAMP. Not only that, it makes our life easy by letting us manage databases using PhpMyAdmin, a tool that provides a ton of options to play with databases. MAMP is software that gives us an easy-to-use interface to start and stop our Apache and MySQL servers with one click. In MAMP, M stands for macOS A for Apache, the web server M for MySQL, the database management system, and P for PHP, the dynamic programming language. If you are a macOS user, there are several ways that you can install WordPress on your Mac.īut by far, the most reliable way is using the MAMP software. So, if you are a Mac user, after installing MAMP, skip the next lesson about installing WAMP and jump to the "How to Install WordPress" lesson. In the next lesson, we will be installing WAMP on Windows. In this lesson, We will just install MAMP on macOS.
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