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WordPress Local WordPress Development Local WordPress Development Installing WordPress Locally

Malorie E Souser
Malorie E Souser
7,503 Points
Posted by Malorie E Souser
Malorie E Souser
7,503 Points

I'm using Xampp on a Mac and having trouble installing WordPress Locally.

MAMP wouldn't install on my mac so I'm using Xampp instead. However, now when I tried to install WP locally I'm able to get half way through the wp config process and then I get an error message that says I need to create the PHP doc, insert code (which wp provides) and upload the doc before I can proceed.

Do I truly need to code the PHP or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks in advance.

Kevin Lozandier
Kevin Lozandier
Courses Plus Student 53,747 Points

Hi, Malorie E Souser:

Can you provide an error message? Being a Yosemite users, you shouldn't actually need XAMPP (or MAMP which supported the LAMP stack on Mac much longer ) since the stack is already installed on your computer.

Here's explicit instructions on enabling the pre-installed LAMP stack on your Mac; your local sites will be available to you via Sites.

For this course, nonetheless, I'd follow Zac Gordon's preference of using MAMP to get started quickly for now on understanding Wordpress local development than manual environment changes.

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Kevin Lozandier
Kevin Lozandier
Courses Plus Student 53,747 Points

To best see if I & Zac Gordon can help out w/ your problems associated with MAMP for you to best follow along his course, is the app itself communicating it cannot install on your Mac, are you using a version of Mac OS X it no longer supports, or you have insufficient privileges to the file system for it to install?

Kevin Lozandier
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Kevin Lozandier
Courses Plus Student 53,747 Points
Kevin Lozandier
Kevin Lozandier
Courses Plus Student 53,747 Points

Are you still having trouble setting up your local environment to continue on to the more interesting parts of the course?

Malorie E Souser
Malorie E Souser
7,503 Points
Malorie E Souser
Malorie E Souser
7,503 Points

Hi Kevin.

Thanks for your response. I am still having difficulty installing WP locally. The message that appears says "Sorry, but I can’t write the wp-config.php file. You can create the wp-config.php manually and paste the following text into it." (10 lines of code are provided to cut and paste)

Also, I would happily use MAMP instead, but sadly it won't install on my mac.

Thank you though for the info about the pre-installed LAMP stack. I will check it out.

Any other insights you might have regarding my situation would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks again.

Malorie E Souser
Malorie E Souser
7,503 Points
Malorie E Souser
Malorie E Souser
7,503 Points

Hi Kevin. So, I installed a few updates and did some house keeping on my computer and then tried to install MAMP again and this time it worked.

Thanks for all of your help!

Kevin Lozandier
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Kevin Lozandier
Courses Plus Student 53,747 Points
Kevin Lozandier
Kevin Lozandier
Courses Plus Student 53,747 Points

No problem; have fun continuing on your journey of being a Wordpress Developer or better understanding Wordpress.