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WordPress Local WordPress Development Local WordPress Development Customizing Your Local Server Setup on a Mac

Andreas Snow
Andreas Snow
6,920 Points
Posted by Andreas Snow
Andreas Snow
6,920 Points

after making the change in port preferences, localhost:80 directs me to the 'DesktopServer' page.

based on another course on treehouse: 'how to install wordpress on your computer' I installed DesktopServer on my mac, from which I currently run two websites locally.

Now I'm doing this course and I followed and repeat all the steps in the movies up until now. Only after making the adjustments in port preferences, the URL: localhost:80 does not direct me to the the 'htdocs > testsite.com > index.php' page. but to the 'DesktopServer' page, from where I can access my the two websites that I have developed locally on with DesktopServer.

I am confused on how this is possible. And I don't understand how MAMP and DesktopServer are connected to each other.

I'm being careful with experimenting with the MAMP settings: because I don't want to lose the wordpresssites that I have created using DesktopServer.

Is someone familiar to this problem or do you know a solution?

thanks:)

1 Answer

Evan Grim
Evan Grim
835 Points
Evan Grim
Evan Grim
835 Points

MAMP and Desktop Server do similar things, and they conflict with one another. They can conflict on ports and ownership of MySQL processes. For you, I recommend removing MAMP and sticking with Desktop Server (since you're familiar with it, it's a good piece of software, and since I like it too). I don't know of anything you can do with MAMP running that won't work as well with DesktopServer, plus the latter offers some great additional functionality.

Evan