magento installation on localhost ( Mac OS)

magentoInstallation.txt

MAC OS + MAMP+ MAGENTO - INSTALLATION

Download MAMP from https://www.mamp.info/en/downloads/.

Install the MAMP

Before starting the MAMP server, we need to do something regarding the selection of the php version. I am planning on installing Magento , and it requires PHP 5.6 version of PHP for the composer to be installed successfully.

So , let's do a workaround. 

Go to MAMP/bin/php/( to view the php versions installed), tweak and rename all the folder's except the php5.60 folder and then we will be able to select this as a default php version. Change the folder name for the php7.1 and php 7.05 versions i.e append a text to the front of the php 7.05 version ( 'testphp7.05') to it.So now when you open MAMP, you can see the PHP versions 5.6 available for selection, if you want to swap bwtween another version of php, you can have the same folder name.

Now for the composer :

nano ~/.bash_profile
    alias phpmamp='/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.10/bin/php'
    curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | phpmamp
    sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
    composer

.bash_profile contents //BELOW\\ 

PHP_VERSION=`ls /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/ | sort -n | tail -1`
export PATH=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/${PHP_VERSION}/bin:$PATH

alias composer="php /usr/local/bin/composer.phar"

Then check which php version is running....

in the cli - 

>which php

you should get the path to the php5.6 path set.

>cli > source ~/.bash_profile 

I came across a problem that the apache did not start, that was because the port configured for php was 80 and it is another application that is using the port.So i did a quick search using the cmd 
>sudo lsof -i -n -P | grep TCP

and found that someother user was using that port.
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One important issue - never change the phpmyadmin user accounts - password, i had to redo everything...bec i could not find a solution as of now.( Will let you know if i get a solution).
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Download the magento community version and install in into htdocs.

Then in the cli , go to the magento folder and run the command

>composer install 

It will check for the dependencies an then you need to run 

>composer init

it will create the composer.json file, which will hold some basic config , autoload settings.

Now browse the url from localhost -> localhost/newMag(Magento folder), you will be redirected to the setup dir.
and you are done with it.

Change the file permissions of the downloaded magento2

find . -type d -exec chmod g+ws {} ;