Just make sure you enter the actual name of your newly-created database in the “Database Name” Section. Visit the home page of your local site (localhost:8888 or localhost:port if you’ve configured the port otherwise) and enter the following info into the database setup fields: Database Name: yournewdatabasename Choose any name you like and click ‘Create’.įinally, it’s time to run WordPress.
There should be an option to ‘Create New Database’. From the localhost:8888/MAMP page, click the phpMyAdmin link. This should launch a new browser window, but if it doesn’t, just go to localhost:8888/MAMP.Īll that’s left to do now is set up the database. Now click ‘Start Servers’ on your MAMP dashboard. Make sure you set the document root to the directory that contains your WordPress site and all of its goodies - NOT any folder that the directory might be in, or any folder within that directory, otherwise it won’t work. To do this, go to the Web Server tab on the MAMP dashboard and click the folder icon next to the words ‘Document Root’ (see image below).
#MAMP WORDPRESS USER IS PRO#
Open MAMP Pro and click the start button to start the server. For the purpose of this tutorial, we’ll be working in standard view.
#MAMP WORDPRESS USER IS INSTALL#
Before we get into installing Nginx, let’s go over the steps to install WordPress using Apache. Once the files are installed on your machine, you’re going to want to make the new file containing your brand new WordPress site the document root in your MAMP configuration. MAMP ensures that Nginx is ready to go out of the box. You probably already know that WordPress has a super quick and easy download. Step 4: Downloading and Installing WordPress. Next, you’re going to want to install WordPress. First, make sure all your MAMP settings are configured correctly: from the MAMP dashboard, click on Preferences and then Ports, and make sure that your ports are configured to 8888, so that your server can be accessed on your browser from localhost:8888. You can leave the Table Prefix as the default: wp. Get ready to enter your database information: Your Database Name is: mydatabase. Once you’ve installed MAMP, it’s pretty easy to get a local WordPress site up and running. This link will take you to the 5 minute WordPress install. MAMP is an amazing tool that gives you access to a local PHP server - for free! If you’re a WordPress developer that likes to work on sites locally, it’s a huge lifesaver. Lucky for us, there’s MAMP (or WAMP, if you’re a Windows user). Doing this can usually save you lots of time and frustrations…except for the fact that because WordPress is built on PHP, it won’t run locally on a browser on its own. We’ve talked before about how much easier it is to develop your WordPress sites locally before uploading them to a server.
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