![]() I use this in my MAMP environment to enable the use of an ftp program to update the Joomla! install when there is a new version of Joomla! released. You can click the radio button and set it to 'Yes' if you like to Enable the FTP file system Layer. The FTP basic Settings are set by default to 'No'. If instead you get a screen telling you there was an error, go back and complete the previous steps correctly. If the information was filled out correctly on the previous screen you will be presented with Step 5: FTP Configuration. So if you have all the information filled in the fields you can click the 'next' button on the top right of this screen to take you to step 5. When you are done here click the 'Next' button on the top right of this page. Since this is a new Joomla! install with a new database being created we there is no need to make any changes here. You can also choose the option to Backup Old Tables. In the Advanced Settings you can choose to Drop Existing Tables of an already set up MySQL database you might be using with a Joomla! install. I used 'joomla1511' (without the quotes) when creating the database earlier in phpMyAdmin.īelow the Basic Settings are Advanced Settings. Database Name - This is the name of your database.Type in the password you used when creating the username and password in phpMyAdmin earlier. Password - this is a password for the database username.I used 'joomla1511user' (without the quotes) Username - Here you will type in the username that you created for the database earlier.Host Name - In this field type in 'localhost' (without the quotes).By default the Database Type is mysql.The right side of the screen is where you need to fill in information about the database. The path to the 'htdocs' folder will be /Applications/MAMP/htdocs. Move this entire Joomla1511 folder and its contents to the MAMP application and put it inside the folder called 'htdocs'. You can change that expanded folder name into something simpler like Joomla1511 for instance. Your Mac OS X computer will expand the package into a folder with all the folders and files inside that you require for your install. Uncompress this package on your hard drive by double clicking it. Note that '1.5.11' will change as newer releases of Joomla! are made available. Your download will likely be called 'Joomla_1.5.11-Stable-Full_'. Pick the one of your choosing and download that to your computer. Your Macintosh OSX computer can deal with any of these compressions. The install packages come compressed as a. On the home page of There is usually a banner with a button to download Joomla! When you click that download button you may be taken to a page which offers a couple of compressed install package options. Get the latest full install of Joomla! from. Once MAMP is installed on your Mac you are now ready to install Joomla! 1.5. You should also have at least 250 MB of free space on your hard drive. In order to work properly the MAMP folder must be located in the Applications folder. MAMP is installed on your computer in your 'Applications' Folder. This article will deal with the regular and free version of MAMP. ![]() There is also a MAMP Pro version that you can read about HERE. The two versions of Joomla! install methods are very similar but there are changes to Joomla! 1.5 that you can get familiar with here.Īs of this writing MAMP is a Universal Binary version 1.7.1. Now that Joomla! 1.5 is available as a stable release you may want to install version 1.5 site on your Macintosh computer using MAMP. Previously this site covered installing Joomla! 1.0x in the MAMP environment on your computer. If you're running Mac OS X 10.3.x you can download an earlier version of MAMP 1.4.1 (universal binary), for Intel and PowerPC. The download page can be found HERE.Ĭurrent MAMP versions require Mac OS X 10.4.x. It is released under the GNU General Public License. MAMP is short for Macintosh, Apache, MySQL, PHP. The simplest way to develop a Joomla! site on your local Mac OS X computer is by using MAMP.
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