MAMP issues – Please help!!

  • Hello-

    I am using MAMP to run my site locally. I downloaded plugins this morning that wreaked havoc (getting http 500 errors) so have replaced my entire root directory with a backup one from 2 days ago. I kept the same name. I also uninstalled and re-installed MAMP to try and reset the server connections since it appeared that was the issue. At first, after reinstalling MAMP, I got wordpress to open but it was a blank/fresh site – not connected to anything in my root folder. 5 minutes later, I’m back to nothing. I only see:

    “The localhost page isn’t working
    localhost is currently unable to handle this request.
    HTTP ERROR 500”

    How can I get wordpress/MAMP to recognize all the information that’s already in the folder?
    Was it wrong to reinstall MAMP and try to connect it to an existing WP root folder that’s already full of information?

    Thank you!

    • This topic was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by Steven Stern (sterndata). Reason: moved from "installation" to "localhost"
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  • Yes, reinstalling MAMP was probably an over reaction.

    Can you view the “readme.html” file in your browser, being able to do this shows that your web server is working.

    You say that you reinstalled your files as of 2 days ago, this will take your FILES back to before you instaled the plugin. BUT did you restore the DATABASE ?

    A “500 Error” means that, while you server is up, there’s either a programming or configuration error that’s preventing the page from being displayed.

    If you can see your MAMP launch page, then the server is working, and it’s a problem with something else. You can look in your error logs to find out more specific information about the problem.

    As Ross suggested above, if you can see the readme.html file, the webserver is working AND it’s looking at the right directory for your WordPress files. Make sure that it’s the right file by making some small change to the file you think it’s supposed to be.

    You can also get more direct, specific information by looking at the MAMP Error logs. These are located in the MAMP Application directory, and can be accessed through the terminal, a text editor, or the console log viewer tool built into your Mac.

    Apache Error Log: /Applications/MAMP/logs/apache_error.log

    MAMP PHP Error Log: /Applications/MAMP/logs/php_error.log

    The Apache Error Log will tell you about missing files or permissions issues (e.g. if somehow you downloaded a WordPress install that has different file permissions than MAMP expects).

    The PHP Error log will tell you about things that are wrong in the PHP code in your WordPress install.

    I am having a very similar problem…

    I upgraded to the latest version of MAMP this morning and my database was DELETED. However, I have a complete backup copy of MAMP from a week ago so I tried using the old version of MAMP (I copied the entire MAMP folder – ! just renamed my newer one instead of deleting it). So, I have all the files I was working on as of last week, but it won’t connect to the server at all. It connects to Apache but not My SQL. There has to be a way to fix this! Please help me!

    @rossmitchell, how do you restore the database? Is that what I need to do?

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