Steps for creating a local MAMP site on Mac

create-local-wp-mamp-site-mac.md

Updated MAMP and it's no longer working?

/Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/httpd.conf needs this line to be uncommented:

# Virtual hosts
#Include /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

Also MAMP might replace this file with a default version, so make sure to back it up.

Main Activities

• open /etc/hosts:

sudo vim /etc/hosts

• add domain:

127.0.0.1    local.[REPLACE.ME]

• Configure the host:

vim /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/local.[REPLACE.ME]"
ServerName local.[REPLACE.ME]
</VirtualHost>

• Create directory for the site:

mkdir /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/local.[REPLACE.ME] && cd /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/local.[REPLACE.ME]

wp core download

• Start MAMP, click on "start servers"

• Open PHPMyAdmin: http://localhost/phpMyAdmin/?lang=en

• Create DB (name as domain with underscores instead of dots: REPLACE_ME), use UTF8_BIN encoding.

• Rename wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php:

mv wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php

• Insert DB name from above into wp-config.php (u/p: root/root)

• Insert into .htaccess remove upload max filesize limits:

touch .htaccess && echo 'php_value upload_max_filesize 5120M
php_value post_max_size 5120M
php_value memory_limit 512M
php_value max_execution_time 3000
php_value max_input_time 3000' > .htaccess

• Enable debugging in wp-config.php:

define( 'WP_DEBUG', true );
define( 'WP_DEBUG_LOG', true );
define( 'WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', false );

• Install WP

wp core install --url=local.[REPLACE.ME] --title=local.[REPLACE.ME] --admin_user=foobar-admin --admin_password=foobar-admin --admin_email=i@i.com

• Install all-in-one-wp-migration plugin:

wp plugin install all-in-one-wp-migration --activate && wp plugin uninstall akismet

• Restart MAMP :)

• Done! Login: http://local.[REPLACE.ME]/wp-admin

• Extra: flush rewrite rules

wp rewrite flush