![]() Once you press submit you’ll be guided through the installation and will have successfully created a new WordPress website on our local server – awesome! Now you can manage your website as you normally would if it was hosted with a hosting provider.Īnd that’s it. You don’t need to change any of the other details. “root” is always the login credentials (username and password) when we are working on a local server. The name of the database we created goes in the first box, followed by “root” for the username and password. Once you’ve selected your language, you’ll need to enter the details of the website we are creating. This follows the pattern: localhost:8888/*NAME OF YOUR FOLDER*. To get to the installation page, we simply need to type in the URL (the name of the folder) into our browser window. Now we have everything we require to successfully install WordPress. Always use all lowercase characters and avoid special characters and spaces. For ease, we normally name the database the same as the folder we created in previous steps. Now you’ll see a place whereby you can create a new database. ![]() In the top-left menu bar, click “Databases”. It looks confusing if you’re not familiar with PHPmyadmin but don’t worry because we’ll only need to stay for one thing. From here we need to click “Tools” > PHPmyadmin. This will load the MAMP WebStart page and everything that you need to manage your local server. The one thing we are missing is a database.įor this step we’ll be opening MAMP for the first time, so go ahead and open the application and click “Start Servers”. Perfect! So we now have a blank WordPress ready to be installed. If this creates a new folder called “wordpress”, move all of the WordPress files back up into original folder. Inside of this, copy your zip file and unzip it. Simple so far! Now that we’ve got a folder to house all of our websites, we just need to hop onto the website and download the latest version of WordPress.Īrmed with your zip file containing WordPress, navigate back to the folder you created within htdocs. The name of this folder will determine how we refer to it when creating a website, so it’s best practice to have no spaces and to keep it simple. Once you’ve found the htdocs folder, open it and create a new folder within it. Move this shortcut to your desktop to easily access the htdocs when ever you need it. This is the only folder we’ll ever need to work with, so if you like for convenience you can right-click and make an alias. The only one we’re interested in is the htdocs folder. Within the MAMP application you’ll find lots of different folders. We are looking for the htdocs folder which can be found by going to Applications > MAMP. Once you’ve installed MAMP, it’s time to find the folder you’ll be using to contain all the website files that are normally stored with your hosting provider. This bit’s quite easy, simply go to this website, download and install the application. So now you’ve been sold the benefits, how exactly do you begin using MAMP? ![]() How to setup your first website using MAMP You can find these files as simply as you would navigate your computer normally and can opt where these are stored for your local sites.
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