Hello everyone,
I want to build a forum but would like to build it locally. I used the search function to find a solution on how to install MyBB on MAMP and found one thread but it wasn't too informative. Can someone please shed some light on how to do this? Thanks!
I used to use XAMPP, which operated on the same principle.
Take the ZIP you download and extract it. You'll see inside it a folder named Upload. Copy everything that's inside upload to the "root" of where you want your forum at. I believe in MAMP the web root was httpdocs or something, inside the MAMP folder.
Say you want to install it to
http://localhost/forum, then you'll put all the files in a new folder "forum", which is then inside of /Applications/MAMP/httpdocs. If you don't create a new folder in httpdocs and instead just put the files there, then you can delete the /forum part of the URL.
Then you need to create a database. Go to
http://localhost/phpmyadmin and create a new database. If this forum is only for your use and won't be visible to the public, just use the database username and password "root" / "root" (Edit: Thanks Ben for the notice). Root will automatically have permissions for that DB so we don't need to worry there.
Check your progress! Go to the forum URL (based on the principle of the links I've posted before), and you should see a message telling you to install MyBB. If not, screenshot to show me what you get.
(Note to others: I'll cover CHMOD stuff after this checkpoint.)
(2015-07-05, 04:09 AM)Josh H. Wrote: [ -> ]Then you need to create a database. Go to http://localhost/phpmyadmin and create a new database. If this forum is only for your use and won't be visible to the public, just use the database username and password "root" / (blank password). Root will automatically have permissions for that DB so we don't need to worry there.
Actually, MAMP uses "root" / "root" as database details.
Source: Local Dev Environment.
Whoops! Confused it with the XAMPP default. Revised it in mine.
Worked like a charm!!! Thank you so very much!!
Another novice question if you dont mind. I want to stick with the stock MyBB theme but I would like to change the MyBB logo at the top left. I did some research and found out that in the htdocs folder, I have to change the "logo.png" file. Taking into consideration my MAMP installation, where do I go to change this file? I know I can access it on my Mac by going to Applications > MAMP > htdocs > images > logo.png
But is that where I want to place the newly created logo file? Im confused as you can see. Any help would be appreaciated. Thanks.
Actually, I think I solved it. That path I specified is the correct path.