Copying a site to a local MAMP installation on a Mac
Copying Drupal to a local MAMP installation OS X 10.5:
If it wasn't for this excellent post, I'd have never gotten anywhere. The following is just an alteration of the Copy a site to a local XAMPP installation article.
I'm using your_drupal in place of your Drupal install folder's name.
1. Download the entire Drupal site from your server, stick it into the Applications/MAMP/htdocs folder
2. Export the remote site's MySQL database using the remote server's phpMyAdmin. Import the database on your local computer using the local MAMP phpMyAdmin.
3. Edit your sites settings.php file located in the Applications/MAMP/your_drupal/sites/local folder as follows:
i.
<?php
$db_url = $db_url = 'mysql://root:root@localhost/yourSitesImportedDatabase';
?>ii.
<?php
$base_url = 'http://localhost:8888/your_drupal';
?>4. Edit your sites php.htacess file located in your main drupal folder directory as follows
uncomment the line, eg get rid of the # symbol:
RewriteBase /drupal
5. Open your MAMP's httpd-std.conf file located in Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/httpd-std.conf and stick the follow few lines at the bottom of the file:
Alias /drupal "Applications/MAMP/htdocs/drupal/"
<directory "Applications/MAMP/htdocs/drupal">
AllowOverride FileInfo Limit Options Indexes
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</directory>6. wa'la
Worked first time!
In the process of transferring from Wintel to Mac to escape Vista, and having to transfer all my WAMP sites to MAMP. Your process worked first time - thanks so much!