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Matthew Welch
9,182 PointsUsing MAMP to manage sites with PHP
I am helping someone manage a website that uses PHP and would like to work locally. I am wondering if anyone knows how to add another webpage to MAMP as I am currently using the htdocs folder for the Shirts 4 Mike project. Thanks!
3 Answers
Steve McKinney
29,274 PointsUsing the free version of MAMP it doesn't have a way to segment sites into multiple htdocs folders.
A couple of solutions are:
To put each project in the htdocs into its own folder so shirts4mike would have its own folder in htdocs and go to eg: localhost:8888/shirts4mike
Use anvil (I'm not totally sure this will work the best though) http://anvilformac.com
Get MAMP pro which allows you to add custom local domains
Hopefully this helps and someone else has a better solution :)
Kevin Korte
28,149 PointsYep, no problem doing what is described here. I have the free version of MAMP and currently have 8 different web projects inside the htdocs folder.
Jacob Scanlon
8,994 PointsYou can add another folder in htdocs containing the project you want to work on. Then open MAMP's start page and then create a new database in phpMyAdmin for the new project. You should be good to go after that.