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WordPress

Emily Kinloch-Davis
Emily Kinloch-Davis
2,687 Points
Posted by Emily Kinloch-Davis
Emily Kinloch-Davis
2,687 Points

Desktop Server or MAMP for Wordpress?

I've taken one of the courses on here that guide's you through downloading XAMPP to start working locally with Wordpress, which I have done. Now I have moved onto another course and it's referencing MAMP in the tutorials, which is pretty confusing? Which one should I be using? Conscious that I want to be able to follow the instructor, so the new Course, Local Wordpress Development is getting tricky if now using MAMP. And don't remember creating databases in Desktop Server? Confused.com

2 Answers

Jason Anders
MOD
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points
Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points

Hi Emily,

XAMPP is different than MAMP. While both upse Apache as the web-server, they use different databases. The former uses MariaDB and the latter uses MySQL. So, it really depends of which database you want to use.
I'm not familar with XAMMP or MariaDB, so I cannot posit an opinion on it, but it regards to Desktop Server, I found that to be more cumbersome and confusing to use than necessary. So, in that, I would stay with MAMP, which is way more user-friendly.
:)