

To edit your "hosts" file, instead of accessing C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts, you will need to edit /etc/hosts To set up in MAMP, you follow the same steps as in the book, but with a couple variations due to the way the Mac OS operates:ġ. Access my store as usual via and admin as I found it to be very straightforward as far as installing an application on the Mac and as far as installing a website application.

Fill in all the fields as appropriate, and complete installation.ġ4. and Zen Cart fires up in Install mode.ġ3. Unzip a copy of Zen Cart files into that folder.ġ2. Use finder to create an /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/zencart folder (change "zencart" to whatever you prefer)ġ1. Clicked on the phpMyAdmin tab, and created a new database named zencart138.ġ0.

Clicked on Open Start Page, and it shows me all my appropriate settings such as my MySQL username and password so I can put them into my Zen Cart when I set it up.ĩ. You can turn it off in System Preferences.)Ĩ. (Make sure you do not have Personal Web Sharing turned on for your Mac if you are running your MAMP server on port 80. It asked for my MAC user password in order to allow the system port change to be completed. Decided that I wanted to change the preferences so that Apache runs on port 80 (so I don't have to say localhost:8888 everything I want to look at my local server), so I clicked on Preferences, then on Apache, then on Use Apache and MySQL defaults, and saved the changes.

Click on Start Servers in the MAMP application control window.ħ. Accept license, and choose just to use MAMP, and not MAMP PRO.Ħ. In the Applications/MAMP folder, double-click on the MAMP.app fileĥ. Drag the MAMP folder to the Applications folder (a usual Mac procedure)Ĥ. Download the software from the websiteģ. I just, for the first time today, installed MAMP, and set up a Zen Cart site running on my new MacBook Pro.
