Comments on: How to install Drupal on your Mac in five steps

By: Mica

Mica — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 02:49:53 +0000

Hey,
on step #3, theres a link that you say to click, but when i clicked it, it says “not found”.
Could You help me , i’m very new at this.
thanks,
mica

By: Rob Cottingham

Rob Cottingham — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:13:58 +0000

No problem, Spike… and thanks for the kind words!

By: Spike Voltage

Spike Voltage — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:46:05 +0000

Ack!
Sorry just noticed you post was quite old. It is late for me.

Good night,
S. Voltage

By: Spike Voltage

Spike Voltage — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:44:55 +0000

Don,
I am new doing this but have lots of background. Rob’s instructions are infinitely better than others I have found.
I don’t know your level but have you deleted you stuff before reinstalling? May be a silly question but it sounds like even though you are redoing everything it is still looking at the originally installed version.

Good luck,
Mr. Voltage

By: don

don — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:27:46 +0000

Hi Rob, very nice article but I got stuck on the last step. I enter in my database name, username, and password and the page refreshes but nothing happens. I don’t get a warning or anything. Any suggestions?
I used the same question from Joe’s post above. I tried re-downloading drupal and re-installing but still have the same issue of not getting past the name and password page it just reloads so I don’t even know if the installer goes past that point or not. I’ve deleted and re-made databases and users but nothing seems to work. After the password page what is supposed to happen.

I’m stuck
Don

By: bram

bram — Wed, 13 May 2009 00:51:38 +0000

thanks man ! it helpt a lot !

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:11:35 +0000

THANK YOU! I don’t know I screwed up such a simple process the first time, but your guide righted the ship.

By: Rob Cottingham

Rob Cottingham — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 04:42:14 +0000

Glad it worked out!

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:04:29 +0000

Nevermind, I must have changed a drupal file. I redowlnoaded drupal and it works great. Thanks a lot of your help.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:32:13 +0000

Rob, very nice article but I got stuck on the last step. I enter in my database name, username, and password and the page refreshes but nothing happens. I don’t get a warning or anything. Any suggestions?

By: disusted

disusted — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:06:06 +0000

I tried all the wonderful suggestions on installing a local copy of Drupal on 10.4

http://drupal.org/node/202483
http://drupal.org/node/281655

this is the worst !!!!!

By: Jagger

Jagger — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:15:45 +0000

I think i finished it all because I see the welcome to your page screen, but every time i click on something it tells me “Access denied
You are not authorized to access this page. ” What do i do ?

By: ed

ed — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:00:35 +0000

see also for a useful tip if you’re stuck creating the database: http://drupal.org/node/332730

By: dc

dc — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:46:56 +0000

thanks rob. totally saved me when my IT guy said it was too complicated for someone with no tech exp.

kudos to you

By: shobby

shobby — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:17:31 +0000

it got installed but now its not taking username and passward, whenever i try to create new it says sent to email but nothing comes

By: shobby

shobby — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:42:57 +0000

hi,
problem on installing drupal it says:

error
Copy the ./sites/default/default.settings.php file to ./sites/default/settings.php.
Change file permissions so that it is writable by the web server. If you are unsure how to grant file permissions, please consult the

i need some help

By: 9GiantSteps · Install Drupal on your Mac LocalHost

9GiantSteps · Install Drupal on your Mac LocalHost — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 05:57:34 +0000

[...] 13. do all of the items in step 4 (and only step 4) shown here [...]

By: james

james — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:53:06 +0000

nice detailed article.. thanks
drupal rocks.

By: Emily

Emily — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:22:59 +0000

Hi! Your tutorial is very helpful but I am trying to instal 6.2 on my mac and I’m not sure how to. Any tips? All the same steps worked for me (with minor changes), but when I got to step five I clicked on the link and it just said that the virtual host was set up successfully and that I could modify for delete that page. But nothing about Drupal. So what should I do next.

Thanks!

By: Zakaria Chowdhury

Zakaria Chowdhury — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:46:18 +0000

Great help, thanks. If you want to install Drupal 6.2 in windows then check here: http://pro-developer.blogspot.com/2008/04/how-to-install-drupal-62.html

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:52:13 +0000

Great tutorial, thanks a ton! One thing to note is this works for Drupal 5.x but not 6.x or 7.x (from what I found).

Thanks, again!

By: epStudios

epStudios — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:04:39 +0000

I have done the install like you say however once I install Drupal entirely, and start adding some Core Optional modules it seems to stop working.
I have looked over everything I might know how to do, but at the point of clicking “Save Configuration” it goes to a blank screen.
Can you help me?

Other then that…THIS IS AN AMAZINGLY FAST WAY TO EDIT MY DRUPAL SITE! I just need it to work fully.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:11:34 +0000

Nice catch, Brant. And thanks for the feedback, everyone!

By: brant winter

brant winter — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:20:46 +0000

It may be worthwhile noting that the .htaccess file is hidden by default in OSX and is most likely not going to be copied to your html directory, thus rendering clean url’s unusable until the file resides in the root of the Drupal dir.

Use this command in the finder window to show all hidden files and the relaunch Finder to show the files, just change the True on the end to False to hide them again after you have copied the .htaccess file.

Show/Hide hidden files (do this from a terminal window):

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool true

By: Wyllow

Wyllow — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:25:48 +0000

THANK YOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 04:49:56 +0000

Like Marc in comment #17 I couldn’t connect to my old iMac on which I’d installed MAMP and Drupal. It was blocked by the firewall. I went into system preferences and opened port 8888 and can now connect from other computers on my LAN.

By: ole

ole — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 10:29:26 +0000

I’m also struggling with step 5 though the message I get is slightly different: “Forbidden. You don’t have permission to access / on this server. Apache/2.0.59 (Unix) PHP/5.1.6 DAV/2 Server at localhost Port 8888″.

What am I doing wrong? Heeeeeeeeelp

Ole

By: Haris

Haris — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:29:30 +0000

Great tutorial! really help. Thanks so much.
The next step is; I am waiting your next tutorial to make my site really life (not finish yet untill now), so.. how to transfer my local drupal site to hosting company, never have experience bout it. i have plan to use 1&1.de

By: Adrian

Adrian — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:57:26 +0000

Hi Rob,

I am a newbie to all this, and so much appreciated finding your easy to follow tutorial (been looking at CMSs for a little while as a means to setting up a website community that I have been thinking about, dithering between Joomla! and Druple – but that is a whole other story! …..)

Anyway, got 5.1 installed on my iBook G4 with MAMP and then when logged in as 1st user, went to Administer and had red box warning:

“One or more problems were detected with your Drupal installation. Check the status report for more information”.

Clicked through to Status Report and got the following 2 ‘red crosses’:

“Cron maintenance tasks Never run
Cron has not run. It appears cron jobs have not been setup on your system. Please check the help pages for configuring cron jobs. You can run cron manually.”

and

“File system Not writable
The directory files does not exist. You may need to set the correct directory at the file system settings page or change the current directory’s permissions so that it is writable.”

(I installed MAMP a coupe weeks back at the same time as a Moodle install, and have since installed Joomla (1 and 1.5)).

As part of the learning curve I will be searching around for the implications of this, but thought I would post here in case it is anything anyone else has come across??

Thanks,

Adrian

By: Marc

Marc — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:38:19 +0000

Many thanks for this tutorial.

It works great on my old iMac, the computer where i installed MAMP and activecollab (not drupal).

but when i try to access the site from another computer in my house, all links turns to localhost…

I type http://10.0.1.220:8888/index.php?c=access&a=login to access the activecollab login page but after i log in, all links goes to localhost…

do you know in which setup i must replace localhost by the private IP of my machine ?

Thank you again

Marc