![]() The URL will change to and you will see the Joomla! Installer pre-installation check web page. In the URL of your web browser, if you haven't closed the 'Welcome to MAMP' window you will see the URL Change that URL or copy it to another browser window or tab to read and hit the return or enter button. Once it is in there it's time to go to your web browser. ![]() That's where you are going to put the 'Joomla_1' folder with all it's sub folders and files. Open the MAMP folder up and look for the 'htdocs' folder. MAMP should be in a folder in your 'Applications' folder. Now go to your 'Applications' folder where your MAMP program is. I'm going to leave it 'Joomla_1' (without the quotation marks) for this lesson. ![]() You can rename this folder, but not any of the files inside it, to whatever you want. When the package downloaded to my computer it automatically unzipped to a folder called 'Joomla_1'. Now go and get a full install of Joomla! from If you see this page with the information above on it you are good to go. To connect to the MySQL Server from your own scripts use the following connection parameters: The Web page will have some information that you will want to use with the Joomla! install. When MAMPis running you will get a web page come up titled 'Welcome to MAMP' with a URL of On my computer it launched Safari. It has to be running in order for anything to work. Do not forget that MAMP is an application. OK, lets get on with the Joomla! install inside MAMP. Developing and testing Joomla! on your localmachine before making changes to your live server site can save all kinds of headaches, not to mention unwanted disruptions to your site in the case that something doesn't go the way you intended it. Now that you have MAMP installed on your Macintosh computer (if not, see part 2 of this tutorial) you can put as many installations of Joomla! on your computer for development as disk space permits. This is Part 3 of Web Development On Your Macintosh Computer Using MAMP and Joomla! CMS.
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