#Mamp wordpress install troubleshoot how to#
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What we want to do is save this folder in the sidebar, so that we can have easy access to it in the future when we’re working on our websites. So inside this folder, you can have multiple WordPress folders that have different names for different websites you’re working on.

This is where all of your site files will live. So inside this MAMP folder, again this is in Applications -> MAMP. If you’re in Windows, you can add this as an Explorer favorite. So the next step will be to add the htdocs folder as a sidebar favorite.

#Mamp wordpress install troubleshoot password#

So let’s type ‘upandrunning’, and now the password has been successfully changed.

So we need to go ahead and turn the server on first, and once we turn the server on, we should now be able to change our password. If it says it can’t connect to the MySQL server, it makes sense because you look at this MySQL item, and it is not checked. Now we’re going to try to change that to ‘upandrunning’ – just for the purposes of this tutorial – yet when we hit ‘Change’, you’ll notice that it’s going to give us an error saying ‘Checking MySQL databases failed.’ But the first thing we’ll do is go into the MySQL tab and change the password.

#Mamp wordpress install troubleshoot pro#

Now I suggest checking out MAMP PRO, but this Video Series will not require MAMP PRO so everything I’m doing now, you can do with just regular MAMP, and you don’t have to have MAMP PRO purchased. You’ll have to enter your admin password a couple more times before this process is over, but go ahead and hit OK here. We’ll go inside the MAMP folder and double-click on MAMP, and you’ll see that it says ‘MAMP PRO is installed, do you want to launch MAMP PRO instead?’ Let’s do go ahead and launch MAMP PRO, so you can get a better idea of exactly what it has to offer.Īnd when we click that, you’ll see that it needs to initialize some of its components, so let’s go ahead and hit OK and enter in the admin password again. You’ll notice that in our applications folder, it is now right here. So now that MAMP has been installed successfully, let’s close this window and open MAMP.

#Mamp wordpress install troubleshoot for mac#

I do suggest buying MAMP PRO as I use quite a few of the features that MAMP PRO offers, and it is $59 for MAC OSX, and $29 as an upgrade, if you already have another version of MAMP PRO. This is nice because when you first set it up, you will have access to both MAMP and MAMP PRO, and you can evaluate and see if MAMP PRO is worth it to you. You’ll notice that we only clicked underneath MAMP here – not MAMP PRO – yet it still downloaded both of them.

This will ask for your admin password for the computer, and then it will perform the installation of MAMP and MAMP PRO. Go ahead and click on that, and go through the install process just like you would with any other installation. Once you’ve downloaded MAMP, you will see this. Underneath this grey icon, we’re gonna click the download button. So let’s get started with those tasks.įirst we’ll go to, and you’ll see it has filled in this “/en/” because I am in the United States. To download MAMP, you’ll go to, then you’ll download it underneath the grey icon, install MAMP, and change the MySQL root password (which is set to ‘root’ by default) to anything different than that, and then we want to add the htdocs folder as a sidebar favorite. So let’s get started by downloading MAMP. Next we’ll be downloading and installing WordPress, and then we’ll want to connect WordPress to our MAMP installation and build with WordPress locally. In most cases, when it’s called MAMP, the starting ‘M’ stands for ‘Mac’, and then WAMP stands for ‘Windows’ Apache MySQL and PHP. First we want to download and install MAMP. I’m Casey Friday, from Friday Next WordPress Development, and you can find me on the web at .īefore we get started, let’s go over today’s objectives.

#Mamp wordpress install troubleshoot how to#

In this video, I’ll be going over how to install WordPress on a local MAMP server. Welcome to the Up and Running with WordPress video series.