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Start your free trialEmily Kinloch-Davis
2,687 PointsDesktop Server or MAMP for Wordpress?
I've taken one of the courses on here that guide's you through downloading XAMPP to start working locally with Wordpress, which I have done. Now I have moved onto another course and it's referencing MAMP in the tutorials, which is pretty confusing? Which one should I be using? Conscious that I want to be able to follow the instructor, so the new Course, Local Wordpress Development is getting tricky if now using MAMP. And don't remember creating databases in Desktop Server? Confused.com
2 Answers
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 PointsHi Emily,
XAMPP is different than MAMP. While both upse Apache
as the web-server, they use different databases. The former uses MariaDB
and the latter uses MySQL
. So, it really depends of which database you want to use.
I'm not familar with XAMMP or MariaDB
, so I cannot posit an opinion on it, but it regards to Desktop Server
, I found that to be more cumbersome and confusing to use than necessary. So, in that, I would stay with MAMP, which is way more user-friendly.
:)
Dale Severude
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 71,350 PointsI would recommend Desktop Server. It is very easy to use and is a great workflow tool to setup a local site very quickly. Yes it does create the database also.
https://teamtreehouse.com/library/installing-wordpress-with-desktopserver
Here is an article that goes into further detail.
https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/development-environment-desktopserver/