

You can refer to this guide to install WordPress on Mac with XAMPP for free. XAMPP is another popular and free software you can use to create WordPress sites on Mac. You can use it to recover password, receive notifications and so on.Ĭlick Install WordPress to create a new website on Mac using WordPress.

Remember that we just created a new database in phpMyAdmin above? Use the same database name as above. Double click to open it using TextEdit or other editor you have. Rename the wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php. Browse to the WordPress folder which is /Applications/MAMP/htdocs or /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/wordpress. You will need to establish a connection between them. Your WordPress files are now saved on Apache server, the created database is saved on MySQL server. Click New, type the database name, click Create button to add a new database to the MySQL server. Click Tools > phpMyAdmin from the top menu bar to access phpMyAdmin. From the home screen of MAMP, click ‘ Open WebStart page‘ to open this page in Safari browser. MAMP provides us phpMyAdmin to create and manage databases. If you only copy files under the ‘wordpress’ folder to MAMP document directory, you can pull up your WordPress site with this link Create MySQL database in MAMP
#Adding second site mamp wordpress zip file#
Move the downloaded ZIP file to your document root folder and unzip it. We’ll install WordPress with MAMP manually so download a fresh copy from. Select Create to generate a new database. If like, you can change it to 80 like other regular websites. Use phpMyAdmin to create a database that will be used to install WordPress with MAMP. Note that if you copy the whole folder over to MAMP, you will need to access the WordPress site from 8888 is the default Apache port in MAMP. You need copy WordPress files or the folder to the MAMP document directory ‘ /Applications/MAMP/htdocs‘. You will save the ‘wordpress’ folder in Finder > Downloads. Run MAMP on your Mac, click Start Servers from its home screen to start the Apache and MySQL servers.ĭownload WordPress from this link. You will be guided through the steps to set it up on your computer.
