Install and Configure MAMP Stack on Windows 10

In this tutorial, we intend to teach you to Install and Configure MAMP Stack on Windows 10.

MAMP is a free application to install a server environment in a local OS X-based Mac or Windows-based PC. MAMP is distributed freely under GNU General Public License.

Initially, MAMP stands for “Macintosh Apache MySQL and PHP”. But recently MAMP was also released for Windows users with the same name with a different abbreviation as “My Apache MySQL and PHP”.

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Install and Configure MAMP Stack on Windows 10

Install and Configure MAMP Stack on Windows 10

MAMP is an easy-to-use application. You can install it on your macOS and Windows. It is particularly best suited for WordPress to run locally on your computer.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to Install MAMP on Windows 10 and how to change MAMP server ports.

Now follow the steps below to complete this guide.

Set up MAMP Stack on Windows 10

First, you need to visit the Mamp Downloads page and click on the Windows version to download it to your system.

When your download is completed, click on it to open the setup wizard.

In the Welcome MAMP Setup Wizard, click Next.

Then, tick both checkboxes in the next screen to add the additional setup options and click Next.

In the license agreement screen, accept the agreement and click Next.

Then, you must select the destination folder. By default, it chooses the C:/ drive, but it is not a good practice to install on C:/ drive because if Windows gets corrupt or stops working, you will lose your data as well. You can choose another file and click Next.

Next, you must select the start menu folder and click Next.

At this point, you must select the additional tasks and click Next to continue.

At this point, your MAMP is ready to install on your Windows system. Click Install.

It takes a little time to complete your MAMP installation. Click Finish. From your desktop, you can see that both MAMP & MAMP PRO have been installed.

At this point, you must open your MAMP. If your Apache and MySQL are active you will see:

Windows will issue an alert window. you must allow Apache to communicate on private networks:

Then, click on the Open WebStart Page and you will see the welcome screen:

Note: If you open your MAMP and It is showing me an error, “APACHE needs open port 80 which is already used by System”. It means that port 80 is being used by some other application like Skype or IIS or WAMP etc. To solve this, you need to change MAMP server ports. Let’s see how to do that.

How To Change MAMP Server Ports

To change MAM server ports, click MAMP and then preferences.

From there click ports and set MAMP ports to default.

You can see the ports have been changed. Click ok.

Since the ports have been changed, we need to run the MAMP Server again.

Note: When you restart MAMP it might tell you again that, “APACHE needs open port ‘8888’, which is already used by httpd”. Now click Use next free port. It is suggesting port: 8889. Click Yes.

By default, localhost is accessed by http://localhost/MAMP/. Now the port has been changed, so it would be accessed like http://localhost:8889/MAMP/

At this point, Windows will ask permission for mysqld. Tick private networks and click allow access.

You can see both Apache Server & MySQL Server are running.

Note: You might get this rubbish information when you open localhost like this, “N��
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��^l&s4GJ|�ÿ÷�€��QbvLXW*jZejd�mysql_native_password�!��ÿ„#08S01Got packets out of order”. It shows this raw information because it failed to make a connection with the MySQL database because of port no.

To solve this, you need to change the MySQL port to 3306 as we said in the previous steps.

That’s it, you’re done. MAMP has been installed successfully.

Access MAMP Root Directory

MAMPhtdocs is the root directory where you will put or create files. To test it, you can create a new folder named test. Then, create an HTML file, index.html. Don’t forget to remove .txt extension.

On Windows, click View, and tick File name extensions. It will display the extensions of files.