• I've installed MAMP on my Mac. Then, I put my website into the htdocs folder of MAMP. I started the Server. But how can I launch the website in Safari now? What's the URL to the website, when it's.
• MAMP is a free, local server environment that can be installed under macOS and Windows with just a few clicks. MAMP provides them with all the tools they need to run WordPress on their desktop PC for testing or development purposes, for example. You can even easily test your projects on mobile devices.

1. Mamp My Website Sign In
2. Mamp My Website Account
3. Mamp My Website Log
4. Map My Run Website

MAMP is a one-click-solution for setting up your personal web server. MAMP installs a local server environment in a matter of seconds on your computer.

• I installed WordPress on my Mac Pro using MAMP and following all instructions to the letter. Immediately after installing, I was able to access the WP dashboard and install a theme. I logged out and quit MAMP. Now I am not able to access the dashboard.

  I launch MAMP and click “Start Servers” and it takes me to <http://localhost:8888/MAMP/index.php?language=English&gt;
  in the web browser (Safari 11.1.1). On that page, I click on “My Website” and it takes me to the home page of my website. No dashboard.

  What do I need to do to get to the WP dashboard and start building my website? I suspect that the answer is something simple and obvious, but I can’t find it in any of the documentation.

  The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

• Hey @goody2skis,

  From what I can understand initially here, you are looking for the wp-admin area of your site, where you can log in and create pages and posts etc. Is this correct?

  If it is and by “takes me to the home page of my website” you mean you see your blank WordPress website’s homepage, then you _should_ be able to visit dashboard area by appending /wp-admin to your homepage URL or by removing the index.php and replacing the URL with wp-login.php.

  _Note this is without knowing your local MAMP file paths and/or hostname setups_

  Lastly, if this doesn’t help can you please share more information on where your sites are stored in MAMP (e.g. file paths) and any screenshots of your homepage and URLs you’re attempting to visit would be great.

  Glad to hear it @goody2skis and you’re very welcome.

  So yes I does sound like the actual site files would be located here:
  Applications > MAMP > htdocs > wordpresstest (this will be your site root where the WordPress core files live)

  If you dig deeper into the wp-content folder there you will have access to whats typically the files related to your site, with the themes and plugins etc.

  One thing I think you may benefit from (if you’re new to local development or WordPress it’s self?) is to maybe use a more friendly local development environment. I personally use Local by Flywheel as it is much simpler to get a local site setup and running than the likes of MAMP.

  Let me know if you need anything further buddy.

  All the best,
  Chris 🙂

  I had the exact same problem. This was extremely helpful. Thank you so much!

  After a long struggle I downloaded wordpress using MAMP but now whenever MAMP isn’t up and running I cannot access my wordpress blog to edit, MAMP also says the demo will be running out, how do I keep my site up and running? I think I am just confused as to how wordpress.org is even run through MAMP, feel like there has to be an easier way. Thanks in advance!!

  I’ve upgraded mamp from a version with php5 to php7 so i could migrated my site to live server. After the upgrade i can access the site – it all looks fine and I can see the top line of the dashboard, but when I login I get a blank page? Can someone advise?

  thanks you

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By the current time, MAMP had released a version for Windows. This helps Windows users have one more option set up an Apache localhost easily. So that, you can focus on coding some PHP instead of spending so much time setting up your localhost. The biggest advantage of MAMP is you just need to install and use with least manual config.

To download MAMP click here. They provide free and pro version. The install process is straightforward.

Install and create your PHP web app with MAMP

Mamp My Website Sign In

After installing, open MAMP and click on “Start Servers” to start your localhost.

When you see the two checkboxes Apache Server and MySQL Server are green, the “Start Server” button turns green and change to “Stop Server” you know that everything is set up and you’re good to go.

Mamp My Website Account

Next, click on Open Start Page, the middle button to open the starting page.

This page is where you can access your website, phpinfo page and something else.

Click on “My Website” to go to your page, by default MAMP is installed in your C drive and so your web root folder must be “C:/MAMP/htdocs”.It means when you type “localhost” in your browser it will show the index file in the htdocs folder. Now, I will create a new file “add.php” and copy the code of the add application I created in this post (source code is at the end of the post) into this new file. My folder now looks like this:

To access this specific page, I type “localhost/add.php”

Mamp My Website Log

Map My Run Website

So now I can run my simple web application in my localhost so easily, thank to MAMP.