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Setting Up a Local Environment on Mac OS X

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yujiahuang edited this page Apr 18, 2015 · 6 revisions

To run WordPress locally on Mac OS X try MAMP.
This template requires Postgres as the local database so install Postgres.app
Open psql, from the menubar elephant icon, and run...

CREATE DATABASE wordpress;
CREATE USER wordpress WITH PASSWORD 'wordpress';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE wordpress to wordpress;

In wp-config.php, edit as follows. Make sure it matches the database and user that you just created.

$db = parse_url($_ENV["DATABASE_URL"] ? $_ENV["DATABASE_URL"] : "postgres://wordpress:wordpress@localhost:5432/wordpress");

Start MAMP and open http://localhost/wp-admin/ in a browser.

Make sure to add this folder to the htdocs folder within MAMP. Otherwise it will not run locally.