Looks like I’m missing a key piece of the puzzle. I’ll get MAMP installed and take it for a test drive. Thanks for the quick response.
I just spent a little time working on this and was wondering: is MAMP
necessary to set up wordpress locally on a Mac? It looks like it wants to use it’s applications/MAMP/htdocs folder as the root folder and move my database files as well. I’d rather keep everything in their original locations.
Has anyone set up WordPress locally without using MAMP?
Actually, I just got it working without MAMP. The trick was setting the DB_HOST in the wp-config.php file to: 127.0.0.1:3306
Using “localhost”, “localhost:3306” or “127.0.0.1” didn’t work but the above address fixed my problem. Hope this info helps someone else.
if true,
you need to write a how to for the codex
There are very good detailed instructions here:
Snow Leopard, Apache, PHP, MySQL and WordPress!
Which cover the installation in detail. I added a post to include the wp-config.php settings above. That was the final step to get WP up-and-running on my local machine.
@bartpop
MAMP is just an acronym for Mac, Apache, MySQL, PHP.
M-AMP (mac) W-AMP (windows) L-AMP (linux)…
If you have all three apps, (Apache, MySQL, PHP) you can run wordpress. The OS won’t really matter. I think samboll may have been suggesting that if you got it to run without an Apache, MySQL, PHP “stack” in there somewhere, that you may have achieved a feat possibly worthy of great reward, and you should share your secrets with us immediately!
😛
I’ll admit to being a WordPress noob 🙂 The article referenced above describes MAMP as: “MAMP is an application you can install on your Mac which allows you to have access to a local PHP server and MySQL server.”
I checked out the MAMP app available through the link on that page, but didn’t want to move my database and website docs.
Just happy to get it working in the end and hoping I can save someone time in the future. Cheers.
:>) exactly Clayton
I am really glad you got it working
Can’t be done? MySQL, PHP and Apache are already installed under OS X
I run multiple WP installs locally under OS X without MAMP with just
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost'); in wp-config.
I installed the MySQL prference pane to start and stop the MySQL server, and use PHPMyAdmin to admin the database as root. Just give each WP install a different database. The 3306 in 127.0.0.1:3306 is the MySQP port number, but isn’t needed in wp-config
Can’t be done? MySQL, PHP and Apache are already installed under OS X
then you already have mamp :>)
True, MAMP by another name; MAMP without the MAMP installer.
I tried that MAMP installer once. I’m pretty sure it gave me the MUMPs. No, maybe it was just a toothache, but I forget. It was so long ago. Then, there was this one time that I installed LAMP, and that left me with a big LUMP. (on my shin – I banged it on the corner of the server case in the dark while getting a glass of water at 2:00 am.) Then I tried that WAMP installer-thing on a Windows OS? Yep’- you guessed it. My co-workers repeatedly informed that the mere suggestion of the use of a WAMP installer could elevate my WIMP levels substantially. Well, needless to say… I need no additional assistance with that!
So. “What’s my point?” …ask you? I leave you with three of my favorite quotes;
1) “Named must your fear be, before banish it you can.”
-Jedi Master Yoda, Star Wars Trilogy
2) ” Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.”
-Jedi Master Yoda, Star Wars Trilogy
3) “view the source, Luke!”
-whooami
jebus, that still makes me laugh out loud. I think I have dain bramage or something.
</uncontrollable spew>
😛
that is priceless Clayton
