Comments on: Set Up a Mac Server with MAMP

By: flashmac

flashmac — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 20:43:17 +0000

Hi Guys, nice post. Looks clear and simple.

If your a web developer and would like to set up MAMP on your own mac and need a full blown guide, this might help…

http://www.dangermoose.co.uk/set-up-your-mamp-like-a-dev-king/

Thanks all

By: John

John — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:16:59 +0000

Tried to uninstall and after moving items to the trash I cannot empty the trash. I get a message mysql.sock is in use?

By: Miguel Guhlin

Miguel Guhlin — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:40:09 +0000

If I’m running Apple Blogs/Wikis, will they be able to co-exist on my MAMP PRO server?

Thanks in advance,
Miguel Guhlin

By: avangelist

avangelist — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:01:53 +0000

This was a real let down. This does not tell you how to run mamp properly at all.

I am struggling with a pc 2 mac transition, wamp was a doddle to setup without any problems at all but I cannot seem to get any of my files to run using mamp, just get page cannot be displayed’s or directory not found.

By: Hozay

Hozay — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:13:41 +0000

As a MAMP newbie, I agree with Peter above that without clear directions on setting up and connecting to the database, one wouldn’t get far. Fortunately, this screencast takes you through the entire process:

http://www.macminicolo.net/videos/ServerVideo9.mov

By: Sancho

Sancho — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:39:23 +0000

Hi there, great place to find some information and I’m hoping that someone here can help me out with a seemingly easy question. All I’m trying to do is to activate MAMP Pro’s built in postfix utility to work with mail. Am I just way off on this one? It really seemed like it was easy but I can’t find anyone. On MAMP’s site there is very little documentation on it, and the forums had similar problems without answers. Any direction would be very appreciated.

Thanks a heap for having a great place to land… cheers,
S

By: Timothy Post

Timothy Post — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:38:54 +0000

@jn Thank you.

By: jn

jn — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:50:25 +0000

Re: Timothy Post

You can definitely download your current WordPress blog folder and run in locally on MAMP, but you’ll need to edit wp-config.php so that it accesses the MySql installation in MAMP, which will have different settings that your bluehost db.

Thus, if you want to mirror the folders, make sure that you exclude wp-config so that when the changed files get uploaded to your server it doesn’t break the database connection.

By: Timothy Post

Timothy Post — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:31:02 +0000

I have a wordpress.org blog hosted at bluehost with a couple years worth of posts. I’ve updated to WP 2.7. I installed MAMP Pro on my Mac and was able to get a new installation of WordPress running fine.

My question, which I could not find an answer to anywhere online, is whether it is possible for me to download my current active WordPress blog folder through Transit FTP and install it on MAMP. Then have the files in MAMP (on my Mac) be “mirrored” with the files up on the remote server at bluehost?

Any thoughts?

By: FP

FP — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:51:01 +0000

As part of this package does MAMP comes with a mod_jk module. This is the part which I had problems with the pre-installed version of Apache, and despite manual installation of mod_jk I was not able to do much with it.