I had major problems with installing MAMP and WordPress on Mac OS X Snow Leopard. I was migrating from one MacBook Pro to a new one. As a web designer I had a lot of sites on my local system and needed to migrate them across to the new laptop. The pressure was on because my company wanted me to continue working as normal, install the new laptop and hand the old laptop as soon as possible to be given to a new person quietly waiting for it on the other side of the office. As he did not even have a system to surf the internet I would class this as extreme pressure.
Installing MAMP was super easy, but installing WordPress databases and installations was a nightmare. In the end I had to result to separate databases all using the root user for access.
I detailed the whole process on my blog: Mac OS X Snow Leopard: Install Local WordPress using MAMP if your interested. I keep having this same problem with MAMP.
If anyone can solve the issue of local host usernames on MAMP’s mysql I would really love to know it.
Please can any one help? I have wordpress running on my mac with MAMP I want another user on my network to access the wordpress admin and site.
I have sharing turned on and details to my computer’s ip address.
The other computer is able to get on to my computer via it and see other sites in the sites directory that I created with Iweb but when they try to see the word press folder where I have my word press directory in the sites directory they get a listing of what’s in that folder instead of the site which is what I get if I access the site via http://localhost:8888/ on the mac running the site
I have set MAMP’s preference – root documents to point at the WP folder in my sites folder. But it doesn’t seem to work.
I too get the same when I go via ip address that’s displayed in sharing.
The purpose is so that two or more computer can access wordpress and publish into the site while I’m building the site.
Any help would be much appreciated.
