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Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: WordPress localhost on Mac 10.6I’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.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: WordPress localhost on Mac 10.6There 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.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: WordPress localhost on Mac 10.6Actually, 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.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Snow Leopard, Apache, PHP, MySQL and WordPress!I had the same issue but finally found that if I changed the DB_HOST in my wp-donfig.php file to “127.0.0.1:3306” that everything started working. None of the other setting worked for the DB_HOST: localhost, localhost:3306, or 127.0.0.1
Hope that helps someone in the future.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: WordPress localhost on Mac 10.6I 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?
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: WordPress localhost on Mac 10.6Looks 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.