Do you have a local webserver running?
Are you referring to MAMP? Which I installed and set-up and have running
Yes, that is what I meant. If MAMP is running, but http://localhost gives you an error, then there’s most likely an issue with your MAMP configuration or your Mac. Probably not a WordPress issue.
IF you used the default MAMP settings when you installed it (that is, you didn’t change the ports or document root) then:
– at the database info screen when running the install, this is what you need to enter:
–database name: whatever YOU named it when you created it in phpMyAdmin (from the MAMP Menu > Tools)
–user name: root <this is the MAMP default DATABASE user name>
–password: root <this is the MAMP deafault DATABASE USER password>
–database host: localhost
–table prefix: wp_ <leave as-is>
Note too that with the default MAMP settings, the URL for the root of the local web server is http://localhost:8888 where :8888 is the Apache port number.
So, if you have all the WP files and folders from the WP package in a folder within Applications/MAMP/htdocs named wordpress, then to start the install, you would enter into your browser:
http://localhost:8888/wordpress
