Today I installed WordPress locally on my Mac and I used MAMP to achieve my goal. With MAMP it’s very easy to run WordPress on Mac within 10 mins. Install MAMP on Mac.
Let’s get started. You just have to follow below simple steps and you should be good to go.
Step-1
Do you want to host a WordPress site on your Mac? I host a local WordPress test site to create my plugins and themes. Here is a quick step by step guide to setup WordPress with MAMP for Mac in 7 easy steps. Preparing the Mac for the migration to WordPress Double click the downloaded MAMP file and proceed with the installation by clicking continue and install at all prompts Go to your Applications folder and open the MAMP folder. MAMP installs a local server environment in a matter of seconds on your macOS or Windows computer. MAMP comes free of charge, and is easily installed. MAMP will not compromise any existing Apache installation already running on your system. You can install Apache, Nginx, PHP and MySQL without starting a script or having to change any configuration.
We need Apache Server and MySQL in order to run WordPress locally. DownloadMAMP and double click on binary to install it.
Step-2
Open MAMP. You may also see MAMP Pro as a part of install. We are going to use MAMP Free version.
Step-3
Change Apache Port to 80 and MySQL Port to 3306 as per below snapshot.
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Step-4
Change Document Root as per your need. Mainly under /Document folder.
Step-5
Then click OK and click on Start Servers. Provide administratorusername and password as we are going to start server on port 80. You should see both green icons as shown in below diagram.
This page by default opens in default browser: http://localhost/MAMP/. Keep that page open and move to next step. We will come back again on that page.
Step-6
Now Download WordPress.
Step-7
Extract wordpress.zip, change name to crunchify and copy folder under Document Root, i.e. MAMP
Step-8
Mamp Wordpress Local
Now go to your browser page http://localhost/MAMP/ again. Click on phpMyAdmin.
Step-9
Create new DB called crunchify_db and click on Create.
Step-10
Point your browser to http://localhost/crunchify to install WordPress locally. Provide all appropriate information as mentioned below.
Step-11
Now check your browser again pointing http://localhost/crunchify and you should be all set.
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