Stuck in 5 min Install

  • Resolved sawtooth

    (@sawtooth)


    11 years, 4 months ago

    First time, I’m installing on an iMac with MAMP up and running, and I’m in step 4 of the WP install:

    Step 4: Downloading and Installing WordPress
    Now it’s time to download WordPress. Once you’ve downloaded and unzipped the WordPress download, open up the “wordpress” folder. Click and drag all of the files from the wordpress folder to your MAMP document root (I use /Users/USERNAME/Sites/wordpress/).

    Others with the default MAMP install should rename and drag the folder to the htdocs folder, located under /Applications/MAMP.
    — THIS IS DONE: /Applications/MAMP/htdocs contains all the files that were in the wordpress downloaded/extracted folder, e.g. index.php
    — MAMP prefs for Web Server are …/Applications/MAMP/htdocs

    Then in the browser, go to localhost:port/folder_renamed to run the install. For example, in the default MAMP install, if the folder was renamed wordpresstest, go to localhost:8888/wordpresstest.
    — I’ve not changed any of the defaults, so I entered this URL: http://localhost:8888/wordpress
    — the result is 404 not found

    I’ve tried to be scrupulous about following the instructions, but something is whack. And the instructions are at times quite difficult to follow.

    Help please!

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  • LyleChamney

    (@lylechamney)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    — THIS IS DONE: /Applications/MAMP/htdocs contains all the files that were in the wordpress downloaded/extracted folder, e.g. index.php

    Then you access the site with http://localhost:8888 which is the URL to the document root, where you moved the files to.

    Generally, it is preferred to have the files in their own folder within the root, as you showed with the link http://localhost:8888/wordpress as it keeps the document root ‘tidy’ 🙂 This is especially handy when you want to add another site. Each one in it’s own folder. Easier to see what’s going on 🙂

    No need to worry about what the local URL will be for when (if) you want to move to a live site as you will have to use a search and replace plugin (or site ‘moving plugin’) to change them all anyway once the site has been moved.

    Thread Starter sawtooth

    (@sawtooth)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Thank you. That was the problem. Am on the WP setup screen now!

    Thread Starter sawtooth

    (@sawtooth)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    And I put the files in a WP folder. It was the install instructions that made me think you were supposed to copy the WP folder contents, not the WP folder itself.

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