shonnalemke

Oh, and also, my local host was the 8888, not the 8889 I was using originally. Double check that in both places.

Eureka!

Ok, so it just worked for me. Before, I was trying to do the install into the “htdocs” folder within MAMP. But, in the tutorial I posted above: https://tinyurl.com/odasnd he has you putting the wordpress files in your “sites” folder, as well as setting some parameters within the Apache preferences tab of MAMP.

I did not even have to reinstall everything, just follow the steps that look new in the above tutorial.

Good luck! Let us know how it goes.

Shonna

Just found a new and slightly different tutorial. Going to start over:
https://tinyurl.com/odasnd

I’m having this exact issue, have been for a few days now. I religiously followed all steps in the tutorial I was using, downloaded & installed MAMP, downloaded & installed Word Press, created a new database within the MyPHPAdmin of MAMP, input the login etc in the config file…but when I go to launch the install, I get either a 404 page, or some gobbly gook code, or if I drag the file to my browser, it just shows the text within the file.

From the comments in some of the tutorials I’ve been following, this is a pretty common issue, but everyone seems to resolve it differently, none of which have worked for me.

HELP!!!