- Installing WordPress is one of those tasks that can be a little scary the first time. In this post we’ll walk step-by-step through the process to complete a local install of WordPress on your Mac. The process relies on some Mac-specific features, but some of the steps are shared with doing the installation or Windows, or a hosting account.
- Use 'Bitnami' to install WordPress locally on your Mac. As already mentioned, this way of installation is the fastest and easiest.Bitnami provides ready-made packages of.
Introduction
Download and Install AMPPS. For our purposes, we’ll avoid the “PHP Dev Package” and download. Mac App Store 1-click install for WordPress Installs a free, self-contained all-in-one bundle of WordPress and everything it needs to run: MySQL/MariaDB, Apache and PHP Installing WordPress Locally on Your Mac. Install the Latest Version of WordPress. First download the latest version of WordPress as a zip file.
WordPress is a free and opensource content management system based on PHP and MySQL. It has to be installed on a web server for the proper functioning. It is the most popular website management and blogging system present on the web.
As of February 2017, WordPress is used by 58.7 % websites whose content management system is known. In this tutorial, we will install WordPress on MacOS.
Prerequisites
- MacOS
- Login as an administrator on terminal.
- PHP 5.x or greater
Installation
To install WordPress on MacOS, we need to perform following steps.
1) Download compressed file
Visit https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz and download the latest version of WordPress which is a compressed file.2) extract the file
The archived file can be extracted using tar command on terminal. A folder with the same name will be created which will represent all the necessary files in uncompressed format.
3) Create database
Start MySQL server and open the shell to create a database which will be used by WordPress.
4) Start the PHP development server
To start the server, a simple command is executed. For this, We have to change our directory to the WordPress home directory.
The command will start a PHP development server which is listening on the port 8080.
5) Access WordPress from Localhost
Type localhost:8080 on your browser's bar and it will appear like following.
Choose the language and press Enter.
Click on let's go and the window will prompt to fill the database details such as database name, host address and password.
When we submit the database details, the window prompt to enter the website credentials. Fill the website title, email and password and click submit.
Click install WordPress to install it after filling all the details about the website.
WordPress is installed now. It shows a login prompt window. We must fill the email address or username and the password to login to WordPress.
Now we have installed WordPress successfully. Now we can make and customize our websites.
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- Let me first get something off my chest: I’m completely new to wordpress and hosting websites in general. I hope you will all be patient with me and I appreciate any help and/or suggestions.I’m trying to setup a website on an old Mac Mini running MacOS 10.14.4 (Mojave) which is on all the time anyway.I’ve googled at it for a couple of days and I’ve gotten this far:
– I installed Homebrew and used that to get Nginx (I didn’t want to use apples build-in Apache-server as I figured with Nginx I migth give myself an easier time ind the future in case I switch hardware.)
– Using Homebrew I also installed [email protected] and MySql 8.0.16 Homebrew
– I remapped Nginx’s config file to point to another disk where I want the website-files to be stored.
– I setup my local DNS-server so my domain-name points to the Mac Mini
– Downloaded and placed wordpress in the www-folder I pointed Nginx to.
– Made a MySQL-user and a database using CLI and then confirmed, by using “TablePlus” SQL GUI, that the wordpress-user I created can authenticate and see the database. Using TablePlus I’m able to manually make entries into the database I made for wordpress with the wordpress user.Entering mydomainname.dk on the mac mini’s webbrowser I see the WordPress welcome-site.
I chose English and then entered my MySQL database-name and credentials. But all I get is:
Error establishing a database connection
This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect or we can’t contact the database server at 127.0.0.1. This could mean your host’s database server is down.
• Are you sure you have the correct username and password?
• Are you sure that you have typed the correct hostname?
• Are you sure that the database server is running?
If you’re unsure what these terms mean you should probably contact your host. If you still need help you can always visit the WordPress Support Forums.
———————————--As for database-host I’ve tried 127.0.0.1:3306, localhost and a lot of variations hereof.
The MySQL and WordPress is on the same physical machine, so as far as all the sites I’ve googled tell me, “localhost” should be enough.What am I missing here ? Any help is appreciated and if any info or tests are needed let me know. :o) Thanks a lot for reading.The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]
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