I use MAMP to create a local development site and when I am ready to place it online I install the plugin Duplicator to back it up and through ftp move it online.
- Installing MAMP # Once the download is complete, double-click the zip file and extract the contents to your desktop. You will see an installer file called MAMP2.1.4.pkg (your version may be different) – double-click that file to run the installer. There are 7 steps in the MAMP install process.
- 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. While holding the Control button on your keyboard, click the MAMP icon and click open.
Sep 20, 2018 First you need to visit the WordPress.orgwebsite to download a copy of WordPress. After downloading the file, you need to unzip it. Next, copy the wordpress folder inside and paste it into your MAMP document root folder. You can rename this folder to anything you want (example: mysite, wpbeginner, etc). Jan 08, 2016 The video tutorial shows how to do these things: – Download of MAMP 3. – Renaming the existing MAMP 2 folder to MAMP-old, so that it will not be overwritten by the new installation. – Installation of MAMP 3. – Copying MAMP 2 – db and htdocs folder with contents over to MAMP 3 folder. – Download of WordPress selfhosted software.
The video tutorial shows how to do these things:
– Download of MAMP 3.
– Renaming the existing MAMP 2 folder to MAMP-old, so that it will not be overwritten by the new installation.
– Installation of MAMP 3.
– Copying MAMP 2 – db and htdocs folder with contents over to MAMP 3 folder.
– Download of WordPress selfhosted software. Moving the unzipped folder to htdocs (document root folder) and renaming it.
– Going to the url https://localhost:8888/ which shows the htdocs root content. Selecting the new renamed WordPress folder.
– Opening a new MAMP start screen. Tools -> PHPMyAdmin to create a new database for the new installation of WordPress.
– Beginning the install of a new WordPress site. Inserting Database name – name of the database you just created, User name “root”, Password “root” and Host “localhost”.
– Finished.
If you plan on creating a WordPress Multisite through MAMP
Then you need to change the Ports numbers. As you need the URL to look like this: https://localhost/MAMP/?language=English without the :8888 Apache port number.
Stop the Servers. Open Preferences in the MAMP panel. Go to Ports.
Click the “Set Web & MySQL ports to 80 & 3306”. Click OK.
Mamp Wordpress Local
A warning message might come up:
“…. Each server must be assigned a unique port. Please check your configuration.”
Go back and change the Nginix port. I use the following:
Apache Port: 80
Nginx Port: 8888
MySQL Port: 3306
Click ok. Restart the Servers.
The root document folder url will change from localhost:8888/ to localhost without any port numbers in the URL.
Go ahead and create your WordPress site and then multisite.
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NB!
If you created sites with the default port numbers (8888 and 8889) these sites will not come up because of the change. To see these sites change the port numbers back to the default. By Stopping MAMP and restarting and going to Preferences then Ports and clicking Set MAMP ports to default.
How To Install Mamp
MAMP 3 user guide:
https://www.mamp.info/en/documentation/MAMP-3-User-Guide.pdf
Installing Wordpress On Mamp
Another article to check out:
https://www.grafxflow.co.uk/blog/website-server/setup-localhost-subdomain-using-mamp/