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How to Install MAMP on a Mac

by Pat Fortino

  • Click Create. phpMyAdmin displays a message stating that a new database has been created.
  • For WordPress, open the wp-config.php file and enter the new database credentials.
    Username: root
    Password: whatever you set it. You can reset the password in the MySQL tab of MAMP.
    Host: localhost
    Database: Use the name of the database you just created.
  • For Joomla, open the configuration.php file in the website root and enter the database credentials; same as in previous step.
    Also, you need to edit the $tmp_path and $log_path to add the path to your website folder. For example, if you put the website folder in the Sites directory in your own user account, then the path is
    /Users/[user-name]/Sites/newsite/logs and /Users/[user-name]/Sites/newsite/temp
  • Import the database. Go back to the phpMyAdmin page, and in the left column, click the database you created and click the Import tab, choose the database export sql file you created in Step 2, and click go. Once phpMyAdmin is finished, you should see all your database tables in the left column.
  • WordPress users have one more step. You have to change the domain url in wp-options table.
    Use phpMyAdmin to search the wp_options table for the domain name of the live website. You should get two results. Change both of these to your local domain; in my case, newsite.dev
  • Test your site. Type in the domain name you created; eg, newsite.dev. Your local site should display in your browser and all your links should start with http://newsite.dev/ or whatever you used for the new site.

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    1. Gordon says

      Nice tutorial Pat work perfectly for me. If you have MAMP (2.1.1) and Mountain Lion (10.8.2) you must also turn off Apache in the Mountain Lion OS. I used the “sudo apachectl stop” command with Terminal. Hopefully this issue will resolve itself with either a future MAMP or Mountain Lion update.

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