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How to Install Joomla Locally on a Mac

Following on the newsletter from last week where we talked about developing locally and moving your site to a live server, this week we're going to walk you through installing Joomla locally, on a Mac.

We're going to use MAMP for this tutorial.

Here's how you do it:

  1. Download and install MAMP to your Applications directory.
  2. Download the latest Joomla 1.5 zip file.
  3. Start MAMP by double clicking on the MAMP icon in your Applications/MAMP directory.
  4. Once the servers have started, a browser window should open to the MAMP start page. If not, click on the 'Open start page' in the MAMP window.
  5. Set up your database for Joomla by clicking on the phpMyAdmin link in the start page and inserting the name you wish to use for your database in the 'Create new database' field. **For all databases created in MAMP the default username / password is: root / root, and the Host Name that you will use when installing Joomla is: localhost.
  6. Copy/move the downloaded version of Joomla 1.5 to your Applications/MAMP/htdocs directory and unzip the file. Leave a copy of this zip file in the htdocs directory for easy creation of multiple Joomla sites ... just unzip the file each time you wish to have a new Joomla installation!
  7. Rename the unzipped folder to mysite (or whatever you wish).
  8. In your broswer navigate to http://localhost:8888/mysite (or whatever name you gave your directory).
  9. Run through the Joomla installation process and voila! (need help installing Joomla? See: http://help.joomla.org/content/category/48/268/302/)

You should now have a shiny new installation of Joomla on your Mac where you can develop your website securely in your local environment.

Video Showing How to Install Joomla Locally on a Mac


 

 


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#1 Ricardo Pineda 2011-07-12 11:22
Hi Rod thx for you post halp me too much, but i got i problem on the step number 4 (database cofiguration) i'm getting this error --> You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near, and many caraters but i can not put here not too much space, so are you any solution for this problem?

Thx in deep
 
 
#2 iowawebco 2011-07-13 00:36
Hi Ricardo,

Make sure you're using the latest version of Joomla. If you still have issues and you're a student at OSTraining, be sure to use the support forum so that one of our support techs can help out.

Kind regards,
Nick
 
 
#3 bobbi 2011-07-13 08:30
Great instructions. So simple and quick to do it this way. Thanks!
 
 
#4 iowawebco 2011-07-13 10:27
You're very welcome, Bobbi! We're glad it was helpful :)

Kind regards,
Nick
 
 
#5 Argiris 2011-08-25 05:08
Hello, yes the video and all instruction are perfectly easy BUT,
When i try to go into the folder i name in my htdocs folder (where i will unzip the joomla and rename it), and then go to my browser and type the name, it does not open. I am trying to install the 1.7 joomla ver. and i got Mac OSx, 10.6.8 -
Any help pleaseeee
 
 
#6 iowawebco 2011-08-25 12:53
Hi and welcome, Argiris!

What url are you typing in the browser?

Kind regards,
Nick
 
 
#7 Julio 2011-09-21 22:12
Thank you for this... pretty straight forward and helped me install joomla on a macbook pro. thanks.
 
 
#8 iowawebco 2011-09-22 12:16
You're very welcome, Julio! :)

Kind regards,
Nick
 

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