MAMP stands for M acintosh, A pache, M ySQL, and P HP. 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 WordPress on your machine, for development and testing purposes. My Wordpress site does not work with Nginx. Nginx does not use a.htaccess file. If your Wordpress site is using a.htaccess file you need to make some modifications to your nginx.conf file and MAMP PRO Nginx settings. More information on how to enable your Wordpress site to work with Nginx can be found here.
From the course: Installing and Running WordPress: MAMP
From the course: Installing and Running WordPress: MAMP
Hosting WordPress on your Mac with MAMP
- [Instructor] First things first, what is MAMP, and how does it help you run WordPress on your computer? MAMP is an acronym, MAMP, where the three last letters, AMP, are the most important. MAMP installs what's known as an AMP stack on your computer. An AMP stack is effectively a web host on your computer with all the necessary components for applications like WordPress to function, Apache, the web server that allows us to access the content and WordPress through a web server on our computer, MySQL, the relational database that serves up a database system that WordPress will use to save all our information, and finally PHP, the scripting language WordPress uses to function and also the scripting language you'll use if you ever want to develop anything for WordPress, like a theme or a plugin. MAMP is a single install package that sets up all the components of this AMP stack and links them together so you can use them straight out of the box. What you get after installing MAMP is a local web server on your computer you can access through the web browser, even without having internet access. Now, that covers the AMP part, but what about that first M? Historically, MAMP was an application only for Macs, so the first M stood for Mac. Mac, Apache, MySQL, PHP. However, as of MAMP version three, MAMP also comes for Windows, so clearly the M at the front no longer stands for Mac, at least not for the Windows version. On the Windows version, the first M stands for My, as in My Apache, MySQL, PHP. That said, if you're running a Windows computer, I'd recommend using Local by Flywheel over MAMP any day because the MAMP version for Windows doesn't have all the features you need, and Local by Flywheel just does a better job on Windows. However, if you're on a Mac, MAMP is a great option for hosting WordPress. There's one important thing to know about MAMP before we get started. When you install MAMP, you're actually installing two separate applications, one called MAMP, a free application anyone can download and install, and a premium application called MAMP PRO which gives you extended abilities at the cost of a license. In this course, we'll first look at MAMP, the free version, how to install it and run WordPress under it, and then we'll dedicate a chapter to MAMP PRO to see which features you get by buying the premium license. That way you'll have all the information you need to make an informed decision whether you want to stick with the regular free MAMP version or if you want to upgrade to MAMP PRO.
From the course: Installing and Running WordPress: MAMP
From the course: Installing and Running WordPress: MAMP
Hosting WordPress on your Mac with MAMP
'- [Instructor] First things first, what is MAMP, and how does it help you run WordPress on your computer? MAMP is an acronym, MAMP, where the three last letters, AMP, are the most important. MAMP installs what's known as an AMP stack on your computer. An AMP stack is effectively a web host on your computer with all the necessary components for applications like WordPress to function, Apache, the web server that allows us to access the content and WordPress through a web server on our computer, MySQL, the relational database that serves up a database system that WordPress will use to save all our information, and finally PHP, the scripting language WordPress uses to function and also the scripting language you'll use if you ever want to develop anything for WordPress, like a theme or a plugin. MAMP is a single install package that sets up all the components of this AMP stack and links them together so you can use them straight out of the box. What you get after installing MAMP is a local web server on your computer you can access through the web browser, even without having internet access. Now, that covers the AMP part, but what about that first M? Historically, MAMP was an application only for Macs, so the first M stood for Mac. Mac, Apache, MySQL, PHP. However, as of MAMP version three, MAMP also comes for Windows, so clearly the M at the front no longer stands for Mac, at least not for the Windows version. On the Windows version, the first M stands for My, as in My Apache, MySQL, PHP. That said, if you're running a Windows computer, I'd recommend using Local by Flywheel over MAMP any day because the MAMP version for Windows doesn't have all the features you need, and Local by Flywheel just does a better job on Windows. However, if you're on a Mac, MAMP is a great option for hosting WordPress. There's one important thing to know about MAMP before we get started. When you install MAMP, you're actually installing two separate applications, one called MAMP, a free application anyone can download and install, and a premium application called MAMP PRO which gives you extended abilities at the cost of a license. In this course, we'll first look at MAMP, the free version, how to install it and run WordPress under it, and then we'll dedicate a chapter to MAMP PRO to see which features you get by buying the premium license. That way you'll have all the information you need to make an informed decision whether you want to stick with the regular free MAMP version or if you want to upgrade to MAMP PRO.
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