By Thomasr976 on

I'm trying to install MAMP and can not seem to get the MAMP start page to open. I keep getting a 403 error. I have tried changing preferences on the ports but that does not work. I have combed the forums and followed everything. Tried a friend's machine and it works flawlessly so I suspect something is amiss with my Macbook. Someone mentione that maybe I had several versions running. So I did a secure delete on the MAMP.App just to make sure. No luck there:(

My root path is Application>MAMP.app>htdocs>drupal-6.11. When I place http://localhost/drupal-6.11 nothing happens. If I add install.php to the url string I get the install page. I know that the user id and password are root and root respectively, but I get an error because the database name in my settings.php page is incorrect. How can I access the MYSQL data base when I can't access the MAMP start page and phpMyAdmin??

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The MAMP forums are full of posts on users' inability to access the MAMP startup page. This is really a problem. I managed to get MAMP running and solve the above problem. So I Thought I would pass this along to anyone else who might be going crazy with the issue.

1) To get drupal 6.12 to install correctly you must provide Read Write permissions to both the default.settings.php and settings.php files. Remember that the settings.php file is created by first copying the default.setting.php file and then renaming it to settings.php. After doing this I typed in http://localhost/drupal-6.12/install.php. Assuming that your using database settings are correct, you'll get an immediate message that the installer changed your settings on the above files to read only. This is normal and you can declare victory.

2) I really wanted to find a way to get to phpMyAdmin so I could administer my database. The start page just would not work. So based on some advice from the MAMP Forums I did he following:

a) Went the application/MAMP/bin folder and found the phpMyAdmin folder.
b) Made a copy of the phpMyAdmin folder and changed the name to lower case "phpmyadmin." Leave the original phpMyAdmin folder in bin.
c) Moved the "phpmyadmin" folder to the htdocs folder at Appications/MAMP/htdocs
d) Enter http://localhost/phpmyadmin in your browser and you should be able to access phpMyAdmin