Posts Tagged MAMP

I’m a huge fan of Wordpress. It’s so simple yet so powerful. If you’re new to Wordpress development of any type, you probably get tired of having to upload your changes to the web via FTP just to see them. Well, I’ve got good news for you – you don’t have to do that! You can setup a development environment so you can test everything locally on your computer.

Your next question might be one like this – “How do I setup a test environment on my Mac? I know that the Apache web server is included in OSX but I can’t figure out MySQL or PHP. “

It’s true that OSX comes with Apache, and you could use it, but there is a much simpler way. Use MAMP. MAMP stands for Mac, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. You have probably heard of LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) which is the standard web development platform on the internet. There is also WAMP; Windows, Apache, so on and so forth. One more acronym, WIMP; Windows, IIS (Internet Information Server. The default Windows web server), MySQL, and PHP.

All these acronyms provide all the necessary components to run Wordpress locally on your given platform. In this case, the wonderful OSX.

Anyway, here is a step by step tutorial on how to install Wordpress on OSX using MAMP. Read the rest of this entry »