How to install MAMP Pro on Mac OSX

Sat, Jan 9, 2010

Magento

MAMP stands for Macintosh, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. MAMP is an application you can install on your Mac which allows you to have access to a local PHP server and MySQL server. Essentially, MAMP gives you all of the tools you need to run Magneto/Joomla/WordPress (and other PHP open source software) on your machine, for development and testing purposes.

Before you can install MAMP Pro on your Mac, you’ll need to download it from the MAMP website. MAMP requires that your Mac is running Mac OS X 10.4.x or later.

  1. Download the installation package (MAMP Pro is not free but you can evaluate the software within the trial period. MAMP Pro allows you to run virtual testing site with familiar domain url like dev.magneto.com on your local machine without having to edit apache configuration file)
  2. Double click the file to unzip it
  3. Double click the disk image to mount it
  4. A licence dialogue pop ups

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  1. Click on “Accept”
  2. A Finder window will pop up

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  1. Drag the MAMP folder and MAMP Pro into your Applications folder
  2. You’re done!

Now that you’ve got MAMP Pro installed on your system, launch MAMP Pro.app (located at /Applications/MAMP/MAMP Pro.app).

While you’re editing settings, MAMP might prompt you for an administrator password. This is required because MAMP needs to run two processes: mysqld (MySQL) and httpd (Apache), and depending on the settings you set for those processes, you may or may not need to input your password.

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