If extensive configuration options is a must, you should consider giving XAMPP a try. where the ports can be set).Ĭonclusion: I’d say MAMP is still the better choice for web designers or PHP programmers who just want to run WordPress or Joomla and make settings using a graphical user interface. MAMP requires the use of the GUI to start/stop it but its GUI does provide a configuration UI (e.g. Also XAMPP components can be started from a GUI or from the command line. On the other hand, XAMPP has many extensions built-in. Lately, MAMP seems to get updated more regularly, looks a little more mac-like, has a Dashboard Widget and works without administrator privileges. You may even install both but you may only run one of them at a time (unless you edit the nf file for either XAMPP or MAMP and change the port it listens to). So both they can safely be tested and removed.

Neither require any command line commands to setup. Both of them are self contained so neither touches the default OS X Apache/PHP installation. You can install WordPress in the root directory or a separate directory. Extract the files and keep it inside a directory. You will get a zip file which will contain the installation files.

But currently I’m using MAMP to host wordpress. As of this writing, the current version is 4.8.2. I wrote some time ago a post about how to install WordPress on Mac OS X.

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