MAMP Server Installation step by step Guide CIS408 Internet Computing
Step 1: Installation Requirements To use the MAMP, your system must meet the following requirements:
Operating system: Apple OS X 10.10.5 or later Mac with 64-Bit CPU from Intel (x84) If you have some more doubt, have a look at the documentation from the link given below.
https://documentation.mamp.info/en/MAMP-Mac/
Step 2: [Very Important] Now I would suggest you watch this small video which explains how to install MAMP in macOS and host a web application using MAMP which stands for Mac-Apache-MySQL-PHP. Once you are done with watching this you will have overview of MAMP and how to use PHP to create a simple Web application, then go ahead with Step 3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=142gdRw-bts
Step 3: Download MAMP package for macOS from below site. Both MAMP and MAMP Pro will be in the same package. It will install both MAMP and MAMP PRO. https://www.mamp.info/en/downloads/
Step 4:
Once you have downloaded the package, double click on the MAMP_MAMP_PRO_5.7.pkg file which will be there in your Downloads folder.
During the Installation, click through the installation wizard. You don’t need to change anything. After successful installation click on Okay. You need to accept the License Policy and need to enter the Administrator password for authentication.
Step 5: Once Installation is done, now, if you go to the Applications, there will be two folders as shown in the screenshot below. 1 -> MAMP 2 -> MAMP PRO
We will only use MAMP folder. So, if you click on MAMP folder, there will be many files as well as folders as shown in the screenshot below. We need to focus on the folder name htdocs where the application will be hosted.
Step 6:
Now how to start our servers?
Navigate to Applications/MAMP in Finder and open MAMP.app.
You will see below screen and click on Start Servers Button from where both Apache as well as MySQL database Server can be started.
Step 6:
Once both the server starts. The following page should open in your browser: