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Sometimes is a little complicated work online with wordpress maybe because we are testing new features, plugins or improvements, or simply we are develop a new theme.

In my case a use a great application to run my wordpress locally and this is MAMP. Let see how to install and run wordpress in our MAC OSX.

Step 1

Go to http://mamp.info/en/index.html and dowload the latest version. After that just double click to begin to install MAMP.

Step 2

When it will finish the installation you can find it under Applications > Mamp folder just click over the icon application to begin run the Apache and MySQL servers and you will see a little window and automatically run your internet browser with a start page server details.

Step 3

Now we must download the latest version of wordpress so go to http://wordpress.org download it and unzip the content under htdocs.

Step 4

Create a new database, so go to start page and click over phpMyAdmin and then just type a name for your database.

Step 5

After that go to Applications > Mamp > htdocs and open to edit wp-config.php and configure your database based in your localhost the database name, user, password and host like the follow image

Step 6

Open in your browser http://localhost:8888/mysite/wp-admin/install.php and that’s it you will see the wordpress setup page.

Conclusion

As you can see is fast to install our personal web server to test or develop wordpress themes, I hope you this will help you. See you!