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Now if I decide to install MAMP will it overwrite all my painstakingly modified.conf files in etcapache2 It seems the would be much easier to use to set up WordPress.

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Best, The WPShout team Serious about WordPress development Check out our awesome premium courses Articles Free Courses Quick Guides News Links Search for: Were social Twitter Facebook YouTube RSS Feed Email Newsletter Main Topics: Back-End Development Courses Editorial Front-End Development Quick Guides Server Administration Unfiled Using WordPress Link Topics: Ideas Tools Tutorials Videos WordPress News Popular posts Course: Learn WordPress Development Complete Guide to WordPress Security WordPress Page Builders, Reviewed How to Locally Install WordPress on your Mac Harper Phillips January 14, 2016 Posted In: Quick Guides Difficulty: Beginner Installing WordPress is one of those tasks that can be a little scary the first time.

In this post well walk step-by-step through the process to complete a local install of WordPress on your Mac.

The process relies on some Mac-specific features, but some of the steps are shared with doing the installation or Windows, or a hosting account.

Having WordPress installed locally is essential for being able to make sensitive development changes without having to worry that youll break a live site.

If youre trying to get out of the habit of cowboy coding, this is the first step Install MAMP if you havent yet.

Download WordPress.

Unzip your WordPress zip download and drag the folder into your Sites folder.

Or whatever folder you set up as the Document Root when you installed MAMP.

Setting info is located under Preferences Web Server.

In MAMP, click Open WebStart Page which will open a MAMP page in your browser.

In the MAMP browser window that pops up, select phpMyAdmin under the Tools drop-down.

In phpMyAdmin, youll create new database for this WordPress installation.

Click the Databases tab and create a new database by typing in a name remember it for later and clicking Create.

In your browser, visit.

Assuming your MAMP is serving on port 80, and you put WordPress in the wordpress folder.) Select your language and click Continue.

We know our database details and already created the database.

Enter your database details and click Submit.

Database Name: your database from step 6 (mine was wphp) User Name: root Password: root Database Host: localhost Table Prefix: wp Click Run the install.

Enter in the requested information: site title, username, password, and email.

Because this is a local install and is only available on your computer, dont have to worry too much about creating a secure password.

Then click Install.

You did it Click Log In.

Youll be directed to the familiar WordPress login page, which should be located at Make sure you bookmark the URL so you can easily log in in the future.

Responses Comments Alex Morco says: November 1, 2018 at 8:39 am Thanks for sharing this awesome article, it helped me a lot while installing WordPress on Mac, for the rest, I am using Cloudways WordPress optimized hosting and fixed through their managed platform.

Reply Thomas Fitzgerald says: February 22, 2019 at 10:59 pm Thank you so much.

I just downloaded Semplice and was struggling so much with their installation instructions.

Reply My Wander Story says: March 1, 2019 at 8:50 pm Thank you for sharing this tips.

Im a beginner and Ive been trying to install wordpress on my Mac and your tips are very helpful and easy to understand.

Thank you again. Reply Alan says: April 5, 2019 at 6:26 pm Thank you do much Ive spent hours trying to find a solution to set up a local server with WordPress.

Therere a lot of great solutions with really awful tutorials on how to install and configure them.

Great job on the simple instructions Reply Robert Hartung says: May 5, 2019 at 9:39 pm I have Apache2, php, and MySQL (all latest versions as of 5-5-2019) installed on my Mac (OSX 10.14.2), and I just found your article.

It seems that I could have saved a lot of time had I found it earlier.

I have a press user set up along with two other test users and each has its own Sites directory and they work.

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