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Today I installed WordPress locally on my Mac and I used MAMP to achieve my goal. With MAMP it’s very easy to run WordPress on Mac within 10 mins. Install MAMP on Mac.

Let’s get started. You just have to follow below simple steps and you should be good to go.

Step-1

We need Apache Server and MySQL in order to run WordPress locally. DownloadMAMP and double click on binary to install it.

Step-2

Open MAMP. You may also see MAMP Pro as a part of install. We are going to use MAMP Free version.

Step-3

Change Apache Port to 80 and MySQL Port to 3306 as per below snapshot.

Step-4

Change Document Root as per your need. Mainly under /Document folder.

Step-5

Then click OK and click on Start Servers. Provide administratorusername and password as we are going to start server on port 80. You should see both green icons as shown in below diagram.

This page by default opens in default browser: http://localhost/MAMP/. Keep that page open and move to next step. We will come back again on that page.

Step-6

Now Download WordPress.

Step-7

Extract wordpress.zip, change name to crunchify and copy folder under Document Root, i.e. MAMP

Step-8

Now go to your browser page http://localhost/MAMP/ again. Click on phpMyAdmin.

Step-9

Create new DB called crunchify_db and click on Create.

Step-10

Point your browser to http://localhost/crunchify to install WordPress locally. Provide all appropriate information as mentioned below.

Step-11

Now check your browser again pointing http://localhost/crunchify and you should be all set.

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In my previous articles I have covered the Installation of WordPress and Webserver on PC and Mac,In which I also emphasized the importance of WordPress Installation on your local computer.

Now with a just a single click,you can install WordPress from your Mac App store.

Thanks to BitNami which built this complete server stack for installing WordPress on Mac.The statck contains Apache Webserver,Mysql database,PHP and PHPMyAdmin for managing database from your browser.

After the Installation you need to start the Mysql and Apache.It will take you to the WordPress installed on your default browser.Note that the default username for accessing the Administrator account is “user” and Password the is “BitNami“.

Here is a screenshot of Mac App store

Wordpress Mac App

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Wordpress Mac Os App Mac

The stack is of 110 MB and it is completely FREE of cost.

Wordpress Mac Os App Installer

You can also Download the stack as a Mac Installer (.dmg).BitNami also maintains the WordPress stack installer for other Operating systems such as Linux and Windows and Stack for other popular CMS such as Drupal,Joomla and Moodle.