![]() You’ll be greeted with a user-friendly installer where you’ll have to keep hitting Continue to get through each step. You’ll see that it contains a MAMP.pkg package which you can run. Once the download is complete (over a hundred megabytes,) extract the contents of the archive somewhere, your desktop is a good place. It’s usually bundled with MAMP PRO trial (a commercial and more advanced) version, but we’ll be using the free version which is enough to get you started. Let’s browse to the MAMP website and get ourselves the latest copy of the software. If you’re a Mac user, you’ve probably gone through the process of installing new software in OS X, and MAMP is not too different. The first “M” stands for Macintosh, or as we call it nowadays - Mac. As you might have noticed, those three are the “AMP” part. It bundles the typical software stack you’d need to run all sorts of web applications including WordPress that is the Apache web server, a MySQL database server and a PHP interpreter. MAMP is a stand-alone application for Mac OS X which brings server power to your home or office desktop or laptop. This means that in order to run WordPress locally, you would need to install and configure the set of software yourself, but luckily there’s MAMP! In order to work, it requires a special set of server software that your hosting company will typically provide for you, but such software is not pre-installed on your local Mac. WordPress is not a stand-alone application. Step by step (and with screenshots,) we’ll go through each part of the process - downloading and installing MAMP, basic MAMP configuration, creating a MySQL user and database, getting WordPress up and running, and in the end I’ll share some tips you might find useful in your WordPress journey. This is an absolute beginners tutorial on how to get yourself a local WordPress development environment set up on your Mac OS X with MAMP. Which is very misleading because it has nothing to do with the password but the directory you’re in.Hey there! I'm currently working on a CLI tool to deploy WordPress apps to DigitalOcean. ![]() If you are not in the right Mamp folder where the database lives, you will get the following error. It’s because you need to make sure all the images are in the uploads folder. So if you get this error: Images not importing properly after migration The database only holds the URLs of the images. You will also need to install MySQL with the following command: brew install mysql How to ensure images come in properly brew install phpįinally, to install WP-CLI with Homebrew, you use the following command. You can also see the official PHP website here for further instructions. bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL )"Īfter that, you can install PHP with the following command. See their website here for further instructions. To install Homebrew, you can use the following command. Long story short, that opened a can of worms that lasted about a day until I re-installed homebrew and then I was able to install PHP and WP-CLI. I was trying to export the database from MAMP with: wp db exportīut it kept saying command not found: wp. The site and home URLs usually go hand-in-hand when you run them together. To set the home URL, run the following command wp option set home "new-url"ĭon’t forget to flush the cache wp cache flush To set the site URL, run the following command wp option set siteurl "new-url" You can also check the site/home URL wp option get siteurl ![]() Here’s the WordPress documentation on the wp search-replace command. To do a search-replace to update the home and site URL you can use the following command wp search-replace '' '' -precise -recurse-objects -all-tables To copy the file over to another folder: cp -rf filename destinationfolder In my case, I usually move the file to my desktop (/Users/efrainlemus-martinez/Desktop) so it’s easier to drag in FTP. To move the file to another direcotry: mv filename destinationfolder It will prompt for the database password, it’s usually “ root“ mysqldump -u dbusername -p dbname > filename.txt Here’s the command to run to export the database. Which I’ll just add below: cd /applications/MAMP/library/bin Be sure to be in the right directory, read Export / Import Large Database from MAMP using Terminal to see the right directory you need to be in.
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