Title: Problem Installing on a Mac
Last modified: September 22, 2017

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# Problem Installing on a Mac

 *  [k3gbb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/k3gbb/)
 * (@k3gbb)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-installing-on-a-mac/)
 * Hi All,
 * I am apologizing in advance because I am sure you all have seen this question
   before but I have not had any success in my forum searches.
 * I am new to this forum and also to WordPress although I am not new to website
   creation as I am somewhat familiar with Dreamweaver.
 * I am now assisting with our church website that runs on WordPress. Before I make
   any changes or adds to the live website I would like to install WordPress on 
   my Mac for learning/testing purposes. To that end I an not able to complete the
   installation.
 * I have installed MAMP and started the servers. I have connected to localhost:
   8888 via Safari and this is where I am stuck. Where do I find my database username
   and password?

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-installing-on-a-mac/#post-9522734)
 * Have you read
 * [https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_Locally_on_Your_Mac_With_MAMP](https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_Locally_on_Your_Mac_With_MAMP)
 *  Thread Starter [k3gbb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/k3gbb/)
 * (@k3gbb)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-installing-on-a-mac/#post-9522757)
 * I did…but I did miss the settings block. Thanks.
 *  [HudsonValleyWebDesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaycbrf/)
 * (@jaycbrf)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-installing-on-a-mac/#post-9527809)
 * If you are on a Mac you do not need mamp. Mac has Apache webserver and PHP built
   in.
 * Here is a tutorial on getting you Mac set up for web development: [https://mallinson.ca/osx-web-development/](https://mallinson.ca/osx-web-development/)
 * Then you just drop WordPress in your sites folder and run.
 *  [Konceptuel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mky/)
 * (@mky)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-installing-on-a-mac/#post-9561531)
 * Use [Local by Flywheel](https://local.getflywheel.com/) as your local dev environment.
   
   It’s free and super easy to use.

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