Title: MAC installation
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# MAC installation

 *  [ivnbkn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ivnbkn/)
 * (@ivnbkn)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mac-installation-1/)
 * hi guys,
 * followed all the instructions ([https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_Locally_on_Your_Mac_With_MAMP](https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_Locally_on_Your_Mac_With_MAMP)),
   but when I try to install wordpress and open install.php….nothing happens
    a 
   full text page (with some errors atthe end)
 * what am I doing wrong? thanks for help 😉
 * code is poetry (even if u cannot really get it…as real poetry actually)

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 *  [Chad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cjroche77/)
 * (@cjroche77)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mac-installation-1/#post-4008523)
 * There are indeed any number of things you could be doing wrong. Without seeing
   the whole process it is hard to say what exactly you have wrong.
 * Granted that you have indeed installed Mamp as instructed:
 * to get an install going you will need
    A) A database created to which you know
   the username and password of a user with access to the database B) A folder in
   your htdocs folder where you will put WordPress. C) WordPress in that folder 
   with a config.php file with all the appropriate info (database name, username,
   password, host)
 * if all of that is in place you should be able to navigate to [http://localhost:8888/name_of_folder_in_which_you_put_wordpress](http://localhost:8888/name_of_folder_in_which_you_put_wordpress)
   
   and that will start the instalation process.
 *  Thread Starter [ivnbkn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ivnbkn/)
 * (@ivnbkn)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mac-installation-1/#post-4008729)
 * thanks
    sorry for late reply ’cause busy at work. hate it
 * A) I created the database
    which username and password shall I know? of my computer?
   if yes, ok I know them
 * B) I a not putting wordpress into htdocs folder as the tutorial here ([https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_Locally_on_Your_Mac_With_MAMP](https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_Locally_on_Your_Mac_With_MAMP))
   tells me:
    <Once you’ve downloaded and unzipped the WordPress download, open 
   up the “wordpress” folder. Click and drag all of the files from the wordpress
   folder to your MAMP document root (I use /Users/USERNAME/Sites/wordpress/).> 
   I previously set the apache port at 80 and set the MAMP documents roots in the
   same folder as showed.
 * However, I tried the default way too and result is the same.
 * C) how do I create such a file??
 * thank you
    sorry for being so uncapable
 *  Thread Starter [ivnbkn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ivnbkn/)
 * (@ivnbkn)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mac-installation-1/#post-4008731)
 * C) I actually manage to create it but still nothing changes…
 *  [Brandon Wanamaker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bwmaker/)
 * (@bwmaker)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mac-installation-1/#post-4008732)
 * Hi ivnbkn,
    When you were setting up MAMP and you MySQL database, you should 
   have created a specific username and password for the database. That is the username
   and password you will need to use, not the one for you computer.
 * Can you copy and paste the full text page with errors into a code field so that
   we can take a look?
 *  [rvmrotterdam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvmrotterdam/)
 * (@rvmrotterdam)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mac-installation-1/#post-4008753)
 * There is a great video on installing wordpress on a local machine (Mac). In my
   case it worked within 10 minutes : install wordpress locally usingh MAMP by Rob
   Cubbon.
    [](http://youtu.be/iWaRKHCdfzc)

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