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What is the situation with installing Wordpress.org on to my Mac Apple Computer?

• What is the situation with installing Wordpress.org on to my Mac Apple Computer? Ok so a few weeks back , I installed Wordpress.org onto my computer, it is a Mac Apple Desktop so being a MAC i had to install MAMP as well. so i did all installs correctly from a video etc for MAmp and then Wordpress.org. So last week i did some experimenting with a few hosting service. which caused a problem, so i got rid of the hosting service. now when i went back to go onto wordpress.org which was offline, format to make my offline webpages, i could not access. it at all so what i did , i reinstalled MAmp and reinstalled Wordpress. doing all precise steps. what was going on, when i went to local host www.localhost8888/wordpress/ etc i get a file not found message each time even though the files exist on my application folders and i even reconfigured on the Text edit file of wordpress etc so what is the situation how come it still does not work even though i repeated the exact same instructions as before. So u know I am using just Mamp, not Mamp pro. btw i was able to get wordpress.com to work and make pages there, but that is different more of an offline blog service thingy so what i am doing wrong. on the Mamp part, i get 2 green lights and i can access my start page there as well and i get the proper coordinates host is 8889 and root , root etc Did configuring in myphp as well for priviledges etc for wordpress so anyone have similar problem? other wise i do not understand y its not working and when it worked before

• Answer:

  I know your situation. It is sad to pay much for a Mac and get things undone. You are trying to install Wordpress on your Mac via MAMP. Follow this guide. It says it all. http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_Locally_on_Your_Mac_With_MAMP