MAMP help

Newbie here....

I am testing MODx using MAMP

I placed modx within the "htdocs" folder but I wasn’t able to get index.php running ...any ideas or suggestions ?

May be you haven’t run install/index.php before?

By default, MAMP runs on port 8888 (if I recal correctly), so you have to do http://localhost:8888 to get it. You can set it to use port 80 if you prefer.

thanks for responding:

yes i did run the install/index.php and i did set the port to 80 ....

Here are some screenshots of what I get using FF:





any more clues :-( ?

Make sure you are the owner of those files and you can read and write them.

I just dropped MODx in and it worked out of the box in MAMP...

Same here.

It looks like the php files aren’t being parsed by php at all, the php code is just being dumped to the browser.

look at the URL in those screenshots

You’re viewing the files on the filesystem rather than thru apache.

Excellant eye Victor!

How to get the browser to view the files through Apache?..sorry being such an a@#...s, I feel so stupid asking these questions......

"look at the URL in those screenshots
You’re viewing the files on the filesystem rather than thru apache."

as far as I know, you should still be using an http address to view the sites(files)...

on my windows box I type

http://localhost/

in the address bar and this works. your setup should be similar as you are actually running a web server and will need to access pages there just as if they were on the net.