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Starting and Configuring
Double click the MAMP alias icon to start up the MAMP Server.
Now lets start up your MAMP server .
The MAMP Control Panel which has four buttons each is explain quickly and any sub sections it may have.
- Start | Stop Servers button.
- Open start page button.
- Preferences button.
- Quit button.
Start | Stop Servers button.
This button is set to start both the Apache and Mysql servers once the MAMP alias icon was clicked.
Apache and Mysql are started "Stop servers" button is viewable at this point.
If you where to click on "Stop Servers" button the "Start Servers" button would show.
"Open Start Page" button.
The MAMP Server comes with a few web based database managers and information pages
for the default passwords PHP information and Faq's about MAMP.
The MAMP "Start Page" can be also access via the "Open Start Page" button or by typing in the address below into your web browser
http://localhost:8888/MAMP
The next three screen shots are of the MAMP Web Based Control Panel.
Php Info Page
The PHP information page gives a ton of information about your PHP install extensions and system.
PhpMyAdmin
The phpMyAdmin page is a web based database manager for your Mysql server and is an important part of getting
any database driven site up and running. More information is available in the phpMyAdmin section.
SQLite Manager
SQLlite is a light weight database system SQLite is a database manager much like phpMyAdmin.
"Preferences" button
Has four sub tab buttons each is explained below.
"Start /Stop" Tab
The "Preferences" button has a few check boxes on it that are self explaining.
The input field where the "/MAMP/" this input field setting is for the "Open Start Page" button.
You may like to make your own start page with a list of web sites etc.
The location of the MAMP folder is HD:Applications:MAMP:bin:mamp
You will find all the files for the start page there.
"Ports" Tab
Computer networking ports where covered in the last sections Keyword & Concepts .
The Apple operating system comes with the Apache web server installed on the system by default on port 80.
So MAMP Server has to use another port "8888" not to conflict with it.
Mysql is not installed with most Apple operating system and its default port normally is 3306.
But MAMP Server installs the Mysql database server on port 8889.
So if you did have a Mysql running you would not have a conflict.
Please note: that is you change the default MAMP ports you need to restart the servers.
"PHP" Tab
Is where PHP versions maybe switched for PHP 5 to PHP 4.
It's best left at the default version PHP 5.
"Apache" Tab
Apache has a folder called htdocs which is the default home of all your web site files.
This is the place where you would add your web sites to.
You can change the location to another folder location.
Please note: That you may need to edit your installed web site config paths along with http.conf file for Apache.
The Apache sever will need to be restarted.
Lastly the "Quit" button will shut off all running servers and exit's the MAMP control Panel when clicked.
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