How do you open MAMP with localwp?

Hello, your websites should reside in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/yourwebsitename. You might also review the video Customizing Your Local Server Setup on a Mac. Let us know if you need anymore help, and welcome to Treehouse!

Hi Godswill,

you can do it like this:

1. choose a location on your computer, e.g. your documents folder
2. create a new folder named wordpresstest (just for testing and structure : )
3. in it, create another folder named localwp (or any other name, e.g. godswill.com)
4. download the latest wordpress zip from wordpress.org and extract the archive
5. copy all files out of the extracted wordpress folder into your localwp folder
6. open mamp
7. click on mamp - preferences... or the preferences icon on the application panel
8. after opening the Ports tab click on the Set Web & MySQL ports to 80 & 3306 button
9. choose your prefered php version under the php tab
10. under Web Server tab choose Apache then set your Document root
11. for that click on the small folder icon with the three dots
12. go to your documents folder and choose the wordpresstest folder
13. then press ok and start the servers
14. now you can setup and install wordpress via phpmyadmin and your browser - do it like Zac did here Installing WordPress Locally

if you need further help with the wordpress setup & installation procedure, let me know. I would give you another list.

Hth Matthias

Matthias Hesse Zac Gordon Dustin Matlock Thanks.