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Accessing WordPress on MAMP outside local Mac?

  • morkus_wp

    (@morkus_wp)


    5 years, 8 months ago

    I installed the MAMP Pro software and WordPress with no major issues. I am able to access the basic wordpress site fine on the mac server, but I don’t see how to set it up so I can access that same site (port 8888) remotely via the web as an actual web site.

    Currently, if I go to the website URL (my server url +”:8888/wordpress”) it jumps to “localhost” and isn’t resolved or displayable.

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    So, how do I set up the wordpress mamp site so I can access it like any other website from anywhere?

    Thanks in advance.

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  • Karan NA Gupta

    (@nuancedesignstudio)

    5 years, 8 months ago

    Hey,

    So setting a website using a server software like MAMP will only work on your local PC. What you want is a hosting server where you can host your website to be accessible on the internet from anywhere

    When your run the MAMP server on your PC, you’re basically getting a local web server only for your PC. Once you finish developing your website you need to move it to a hosting server and register it with a domain name for it to be accessible on the internet.

    Hope this helps.

    Regards,
    Karan

    Dion

    (@diondesigns)

    5 years, 8 months ago

    Unless your goal is to get your home system hacked, you don’t want your localhost install to be visible to the outside world.

    It’s possible that MAMP has a security issue which allows outside access. If you currently access the site at http://localhost:8888, replace “localhost” with the IP address assigned to you by your ISP. If there is a security issue, your site might appear. It won’t work correctly because the access URL is different than the “site URL” value in the WordPress settings, but something would be displayed.

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