Setup Drupal 11 on locally using MAMP and Composer on macOS

Development Environment

• MacOS Sequoia 15.0.1
• MAMP PRO 7.1
  • Apache 2.4.58
  • PHP 8.3.10
  • MySQL 8.0.35
• Composer 2.8.1

Steps

1. Install MAMP.

2. Install Composer using Homebrew.

   brew composer

3. Set ports on MAMP (Option).

   Default ports are Apache port: 8888 and MySQL port: 8889, or set port to Apache port: 80 and MySQL port: 3306.

4. Open Terminal and navigate to document root.

   for MAMP PRO, path is /Users/YOUR USER NAME/Sites.

   for MAMP, path is /Application/MAMP/htdocs.

5. Create an initial Drupal project using composer (Using Composer to Install Drupal and Manage Dependencies).

   composer create-project drupal/recommended-project your-project-name

6. Set document root on MAMP to /Users/your-user-name/Sites/your-project-name/web or /Application/MAMP/htdocs/your-project-name/web.

7. Start servers on MAMP.

8. Create a database from command line. Or using phpMyAdmin (Create a database).

   /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysql -u root -p

   mysql> CREATE DATABASE your_database CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_general_ci;

9. Create a user for database. Or using existing user and set privileges up).

   mysql> CREATE USER your_user@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'your_password';
   mysql> GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP, INDEX, ALTER, CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES ON your_database.* TO 'your_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'your_password';
   mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

10. Open http://your-host-name and following the steps to install Drupal.