

Notice the URL Note: If you are using XAMPP, the localhost url should just be Our MAMP local server, by default uses port 8888 for Apache and port 8889 for MySQL (for the purposes of this tutorial, we won’t be talking about MySQL server ports). Once the servers have loaded (lights turn green), our MAMP home page should load. If you are using XAMPP, you can select ‘Apache Web Server’ and click the ‘Start’ button. We can do this by clicking on ‘Start Servers’. If you are using XAMPP, you should see the Apache web server and MySQL servers under the ‘Manage Servers’ Application tab. On the left we have our server status- Apache and MySQL, these should currently be red, as we have not ‘started our servers’.

Navigate to the MAMP folder and launch ‘MAMP.app’ (don’t worry about MAMP pro).Īs you can see, its a fairly basic, easy to navigate application. We have our MAMP folder located in ‘/Applications/MAMP/’, this is where the good stuff is.

Depending on your System Configuration, your localhost URL should be You would also be using the XAMPP control panel. Windows and Linux users you should be able to follow along with the MAMP tutorial, your ‘htdocs’ directory should be located in the XAMPP Application directory. Today, I will be running through a default MAMP set-up. Once we have our installation set up we can start to set-up our localhost environment.
#Jquery on mamp for mac free
If you are using a Mac, I recommend installing MAMP – Mac Apache MySQL and PHP (there is a free version available and is absolutely fine for our intents and purposes).
