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PS: Thank you for the idea to go to localhost forum. I will ask there soon if I couldn’t figure it out here.

Question: Can I completely uninstall all mamp stuff without reseting my computer(mac) and without using the uninstaller (because it doesn’t work anymore)?

After setting default ports and opening “https://localhost:8888” in the browser I get the “You don’t have permission to access / on this server.” page. (Also after new installation)

further info (if needed):

Why the new installation may didn’t reset everything:

I tried to deinstall and install MAMP to get rid of the problem.
First I deleted the folder, because i read somewehere, that this would be enough.

Then I installed it again. Then I found there are two Uninstallers. One worked, one not.
Then I used the working uninstaller to uninstall the just installed one. The other I couldnt uninstall, so I just deleted all folders/files wich include “MAMP“.

Then I installed again. Seemed to work, because the program gave me the message, that it had to initialize stuff. Somehow the changed root directory of apache (which I changed in the first installation) is still there. So maybe somehow there have been some connections between some old folders and the new installation.

Also unfortunately the permission error remained the same.

Question: Can I completely uninstall all mamp stuff without reseting my computer(mac) and without using the uninstaller (because it doesn’t work anymore)?

update:

– https://yourwordpresssite/readme.html is not available

and

– https://localhost/ is forbidden (403)

It also seems to be related to Mamp because Xamp-apache works.

update:

– when I press set apache and mysql ports to 80,443 and 3306 in mamp, then I get the access forbidden page.

– when I press set default mamp ports i couldn’t access localhost.

Access urls:

– I can not access either of this two urls.

Change apache file:

– I never opened an apache config file directly.
– I never tried to change something about apache except for running apachectl start/stop.
– the only two programs which I know do something about localhost are xamp and mamp.

Reinstall apache:;

– How can I reinstall apache?
– Are there 3 apache programs? One for xamp, one for mamp and one native? or are xamp/mamp somehow using the native?
– If they are not using the native, how can I reinstall the mamp one? For the native I would try maybe something like “brew uninstall apache2” and then brew install.
– Since I do not feel like a pro in this kind of stuff, I better get sure how you think I should do that. I don’t want to destroy my native apache in addition to the mamp-apache.

Thank you for the help! Iam not at home. When I come back it will be night here in China. Tomorrow morning I will have tried both!
Thank y

Update:

Even though MAMP apache was not running i was able to access localhost.
Because I also put apachectl stop in my terminal I assumed that the native server is not running.
So I thought maybe the older XAMP is still running. But the program was completely shut down. Not in my mac bottom bar and also I could not find it in activity monitor with some name like “xamp” or “manager” (thats normally the name for that application).

Then I started xamp again. And it was probably really starting because I had to put in my computer root password (the program requires this only at start). Somehow the server was still running all the time even the program seemed to be closed.

So I stopped that and started Mamp again. This seemed to work at first sight but then i tried to visit localhost. My browser said me as response:

You don’t have permission to access / on this server.

Mh.. Then I gave my sites folder all rights it could get (wrx) to just get it running, but that didn’t work.

Question: Why these forbidden message appears?

@gadgetroid: OSX 10.9.5
@rossmitchell: Thank you for that tip. I remember that one time this happened to me. I should have considered this as a source of the error. Probably its not this because I also tried the web Interface:
( I tried it first with the conf file. For this I used TextWrangler (checked every name thoroughly. Then I downloaded the wordpress folder again and replaced my renamed config.php with the default config-sample.php . Then I opened the wordpress folder through localhost and tried manyyy times to connect to the database. Always rechecking with phpMyadmin. )

when I now try to start apache this are the last two lines of the error log:

[Sat Nov 15 23:45:58 2014] [notice] Apache/2.2.29 (Unix) mod_fastcgi/2.4.6 mod_wsgi/3.4 Python/2.7.8 PHP/5.6.2 mod_ssl/2.2.29 OpenSSL/0.9.8za DAV/2 mod_perl/2.0.8 Perl/v5.20.0 configured — resuming normal operations
[Sat Nov 15 23:51:47 2014] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down