Installing WordPress Locally on Your Mac With MAMP

I have been installing WordPress into a MAMP installation on my Mac.

I have MAMP installed and configured on my Mac, I downloaded wordpress, and moved everything from the wordpress folder into the wordpress folder under MAMP. And already have the page setup under my MySQL database.

I got the green light on my Apache/MySQL servers (on MAMP) and successfully opened the start page

Then I opened up wp-config-sample.php and changed the following(so wp can talk to the database):

// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress');

/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'root');

/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'root');

/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');

I re-saved the file as: wp-config.php

When I went to my browser and typed in http://localhost/

I didn't see the Wordpress Set-up window... and was not able to set up a Site Title, username, password, email, etc.

Instead, I got a failed to open page



Does anyone know why this is?

I have spent so much time researching/trial&error trying to figure out how to get to the wp set up window and haven't had any success. Let me know if you can help, thank you.