Setting Up WordPress: MAMP Local Host giving 500 error

  • I am a WordPress novice trying to install WordPress on my machine and am using MAMP.

    I have the Apache Port and the Nginx Port both set to 80 and the MySQL Port set to 3306. When I type “localhost” into the address bar of Chrome, it says “This page isn’t working localhost is currently unable to handle this request.
    HTTP ERROR 500”

    I have reinstalled WordPress and MAMP on my machine several times. I have updated my operating system and am running Catalina 10.15.5.

    I am not sure where to begin troubleshooting this, help is appreciated.

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  • Try port 8888
    localhost:8888/

    Look at your error logs :
    /Applications/MAMP/logs/apache_error_log

    Is MAMP running ?

    Is WP installed here :
    Applications > MAMP > htdocs
    ?

    Thread Starter markwise54

    (@markwise54)

    Thanks for the reply!

    Try port 8888
    localhost:8888/
    I got the same error.

    Is MAMP running ?
    Yes.

    Is WP installed here :
    Applications > MAMP > htdocs
    ?
    Just did this. Still getting same error.

    Look at your error logs :
    /Applications/MAMP/logs/apache_error_log
    Below is the error log. It is Greek to me.

    [Tue Jun 09 10:50:42 2020] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication …
    [Tue Jun 09 10:50:42 2020] [notice] Digest: done
    [Tue Jun 09 10:50:42 2020] [notice] FastCGI: process manager initialized (pid 1029)
    [Tue Jun 09 10:50:42 2020] [notice] Apache/2.2.34 (Unix) mod_wsgi/3.5 Python/2.7.13 PHP/7.4.2 mod_ssl/2.2.34 OpenSSL/1.0.2o DAV/2 mod_fastcgi/mod_fastcgi-SNAP-0910052141 mod_perl/2.0.11 Perl/v5.24.0 configured — resuming normal operations
    [Tue Jun 09 10:55:33 2020] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication …
    [Tue Jun 09 10:55:33 2020] [notice] Digest: done
    [Tue Jun 09 10:55:33 2020] [warn] pid file /Applications/MAMP/Library/logs/httpd.pid overwritten — Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run?
    [Tue Jun 09 10:55:33 2020] [notice] FastCGI: process manager initialized (pid 1779)
    [Tue Jun 09 10:55:33 2020] [notice] Apache/2.2.34 (Unix) mod_wsgi/3.5 Python/2.7.13 PHP/7.4.2 mod_ssl/2.2.34 OpenSSL/1.0.2o DAV/2 mod_fastcgi/mod_fastcgi-SNAP-0910052141 mod_perl/2.0.11 Perl/v5.24.0 configured — resuming normal operations

    • This reply was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by markwise54.

    Did you start the server ?
    https://s3.amazonaws.com/webucator-how-tos/3151.png

    How about this :
    localhost:8888/MAMP/
    or this :
    localhost:80/MAMP/

    Thread Starter markwise54

    (@markwise54)

    The servers are currently up: green lights on Apache and MySQL and Red Light on Cloud.

    Those two addresses (localhost:8888/MAMP and localhost:80/MAMP) bring me to MAMP and then from MAMP, I click “My Website” and I get the 500 error again.

    Hm, well I’m tapped out of ideas.
    Go back to square one and make sure nothing was missed :
    https://documentation.mamp.info/en/MAMP-PRO-Mac/First-Steps/

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