I am trying to do the same thing with MAMP (and a live site at MediaTemple). I’ve plugged the connection info into wp-config on my local machine and just changed the MAMP ports per your suggestion, but it still doesn’t work. Now Apache won’t start up.
I realized as I am typing this that the Mac OS X installed Apache is probably running on port 80…hence the conflict.
Ian
I am trying to do the same thing with MAMP. My live site is hosted at MediaTemple; there you simply have to specify an IP to allow access to the remote DB. I’ve plugged in the connection info into wp-config on my local machine, but it still doesn’t work.
When I browse to /wp-admin on the local machine the login screen comes up as expected. I login, but then I am redirected to the live site, where I am now logged in. Seems weird, but I guess the DB itself contains the site URL.
Anyone out there have advice?
