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Yohan Park
Yohan Park
7,148 Points
Posted by Yohan Park
Yohan Park
7,148 Points

Is the port number change an important step?

I cannot get it to work with 80 & 3306. It says "Apache couldn't be started. Please check your MAMP installation and configuration. " Thank you.

1 Answer

Patricia Hector
Patricia Hector
42,901 Points
Patricia Hector
Patricia Hector
42,901 Points

You probably have another application running in those ports. In order to work with the server, you need to change those ports. Open up MAMP and before you start the server go to Preferences, and there on the top menu go to Ports and check in which port Apache is running (80, 8888, 81). If Apache is running in port 80, as you said before, this is taken so you need to change it. You should be able to see a button that says Set MAMP ports to default. Once you click there you should get

  • Apache port: 8888
  • MySQL port: 8889

With the new Apache port set, start your server and go to localhost:8888 on the browser. If everything is alright you should see a welcome page from MAMP. Then you can go to wherever is located the MAMP folder and inside it, look for the htdocs folder and start creating your projects there. Happy Coding. Ciao.

Yohan Park
Yohan Park
7,148 Points
Yohan Park
Yohan Park
7,148 Points

You're right! Thank you!