If you are reading this guide, you probably already know that MAMP can help host a content management system such as WordPress on your computer to host a website(s) locally for development or testing before deploying it online. Please note that MAMP is available on Windows operating system as well. MAMP provides similar functionality with WAMP Server on Windowsor LAMP on Linux.
Though you can install each software separately on your macOS computer, MAMP saves you a lot of headache searching, downloading, installing, and configuring all the software necessary for hosting a website on your machine.Īll the software stack is bundled in one compact, easy-to-install file.
MAMP is an acronym for macOS, Apache, MySQL/MariaDB, and PHP.
