Login to localhost

  • elmckendrick

    (@elmckendrick)


    11 years, 3 months ago

    Hi Guys.

    I am a complete newbie to all of this so please forgive my ignorance in advance!

    I installed mamp on my mac following a tutorial on youtube. Once complete I installed wordpress.

    To tell you the truth I didn’t really know what I was doing, I just followed the tutorial in the hope that I’d figure it out as I went along.

    Once I had installed and completed the set up I set up my first ever wordpress site.

    I then decided I didn’t know what I was doing and started all over again. However, I started all over again completely. Reinstalled mamp and set up another site.

    I ended up with a total of 3 sites.

    Now I have no idea how to log into any of them and when I go to localhost:8888/ i can see them but not log in. When I go to phpMyAdmin it tells me that the server is on port 8889. I think this was done when i set up the mamp the second time it forced me onto another port.

    So, what do I do?

    How do I log back onto my sites?

    I haven’t got a clue please help me.

    Kind regards,

    Elliot.

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  • RossMitchell

    (@rossmitchell)

    11 years, 3 months ago

    Uninstall all 3 sites, uninstall the mysql and apache servers, delete the files.
    Now reinstall, just once, and keep notes of the choices and settings you made.

    Thread Starter elmckendrick

    (@elmckendrick)

    11 years, 3 months ago

    yeah I was hoping you wouldn’t say that…

    LyleChamney

    (@lylechamney)

    11 years, 3 months ago

    What you see in phpMyAdmin for the port number, 8889, is the MAMP default port number for the MySQL server. You do not require this for any ‘normal’ operation of MAMP 🙂

    If your second and current install of MAMP is a default one, that is, you have not made any changes to the MAMP Preferences (port numbers and document root), then you should still be fine.

    When installing any ‘script’ (WordPress, Joomla!, eFront, etc.) into a local server (MAMP), it is best practices to give them their own folder within the document root, which in the case of a default MAMP install, is:

    Applications/MAMP/htdocs

    So even if you did put your first WP install directly in there, don’t worry about it; just make sure that any subsequent ones have their files in a separate folder, e.g.:

    Applications/MAMP/htdocs/wordpress2

    If you get the MAMP Start Page when you enter:

    http://localhost:8888 then you do not have the WP files in the document root and I would guess that they would be in:

    Applications/MAMP/htdocs/wordpress

    If you DO get the WP install screen (or the site if you went through the install), then fine, just use that for now. The log in screen is then:

    http://localhost:8888/wp-admin or http://localhost:8888/wp-login.php

    Thread Starter elmckendrick

    (@elmckendrick)

    11 years, 3 months ago

    Thank you LyleChamney

    The good news is they’re all in different folders.

    When I go to localhost:8888 i can see all the folders. I can visit all 3 sites. I just can’t log into each one. How would I go about that?

    Regards,

    Elliot.

    Thread Starter elmckendrick

    (@elmckendrick)

    11 years, 3 months ago

    Oh never mind. I figured it out! Cheers guys.

    Apologies for my ignorance once again.

    Kind regards,

    Elliot.

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