Setting up Craft CMS locally with MAMP and Composer

MAMP allows you to run a local web development server with Apache or Nginx as well as MySQL with a simple GUI.

Composer is a dependency manager for PHP that helps keep track of packages like Craft CMS and allows easy installation and saving of these packages.

1. Download MAMP at https://www.mamp.info/en/downloads/

2. Install composer with the instructions at https://getcomposer.org/download/

3. Setup Craft CMS with composer by doing
   composer create-project craftcms/craft <Path>
   
   I have a projects folder I use for all my web projects and we will be able to point MAMP to use the folder we want. For me this looks like
   composer create-project craftcms/craft ~/Projects/craft-test
   
   After successful installation, you will see this
   

4. Open MAMP and go to MAMP > Preferences > Web Server and for Document Root select the web folder inside the folder you just composer installed Craft CMS into which would be ~/Projects/craft-test/web/

5. In MAMP click start servers.
   If the MAMP start page doesn't open automatically click Open WebStart Page

6. Go to Tools > PHPMYADMIN

7. In the top left click new and enter a database name craft-test. The root user will be added to this database.

8. Back in your terminal go to your craft project ~/Projects/craft-test and enter
   ./craft setup to start the Craft setup. It will ask you a few questions. Here is the database info based on what you just created with MAMP and PHPMYADMIN.

   • Database type: mysql
   • Host: localhost (or 127.0.0.1)
   • Database port: 8889
   • Database name: (the one you just created)
   • Database user: root
   • Database password: root
   • You are also asked to create a site name and username/ password

   After this is ran it will setup the database and tables and you should be all ready to go.

9. Open http://localhost:8888/admin or http://127.0.0.1:8888/admin and you can now login to your local Craft CMS