![]() I also added this entry so I could access the project root through a browser: Remember to change the DocumentRoot URL to the appropriate path to your sites on your computer. Now, for each domain name, add an entry to connect it to the appropriate directory path on your computer like this: ĭocumentRoot "/Users/username/projects/mysite"ĭocumentRoot "/Users/username/projects/anothersite"ĭocumentRoot "/Users/username/projects/yetanother" In nf, find this line and make sure it’s uncommented: Include /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/extra/nf If you do this, make sure that your main nf file includes the nf file. Now, you can edit it directly, or do what I did, which is edit the nf file in the “extra” directory here: /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/extra/nf You can find it here on MAMP for Mac: /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/nf If you’re familiar with Apache, you know this happens in the nf file. ![]() ![]() Now you have to tell Apache which directory to use for each URL. You can choose whatever you want, but don’t use “.dev”, as that has been reserved for other purposes and won’t work in most browsers (I learned this the hard way back when I was using Desktop Server).ģ. Note, I decided to switch to the “.local” top-level domain for my local dev sites. Go ahead and edit it using your favorite text editor and add all your local development sites like this: 127.0.0.1 mysite.local The next step is to direct your local URLs to your localhost by adding them to your hosts file, which is located here on a Mac: /etc/hosts ![]() The settings on this page are misleading because port 80 is the actual default value that lets you eliminate the port number in the URL.Īfter restarting, MAMP, you should be able to access your local sites without the port number in the URL like this: 127.0.0.1/īut remember, none of your WordPress sites will work with this URL until you do a search and replace on the database, but we’re not there yet. Unfortunately, when I started using MAMP, I chose their “default” Apache port value of 8888. Here are my step-by-step instructions to get pretty URLs when using MAMP! I did a bunch of research to finally fix this problem to get a clean local development URL of this format: mysite.local So, I figured that a simple entry in my hosts file would fix it, but I discovered that hosts files can’t handle port numbers or subdirectories. Also, it was kind of ugly, but this was just for development, so who cares, right?īut, I recently wanted to copy a WordPress Multisite install to my local computer and wasn’t able to get it to work with this URL format. Occasionally, I’d have a problem when a site used root-relative links, but I just lived with that. That was fine for most of my local sites. When I started using MAMP for local website development, my local URLs were of this form: 127.0.0.1:8888/ If you want to keep struggling with MAMP (like I did for a long time), keep reading: The Original Article I’ve kept the article below for those still using MAMP, but rather than messing with these settings, I’d recommend that you check out LocalWP. Note, since writing this article, I have switched to LocalWP, which is superior to MAMP in practically every way and has clean URLs from the get-go.
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