If you're working on a project that requires a version of PHP higher than the versions that MAMP comes with, you can easily add additional verions.
My version of MAMP came installed with PHP 7.4.21 and 8.0.8. I'm attempting to use MAMP to host a Laravel application which requires at least PHP 8.1.
The version of PHP MAMP uses is often different than the version you have installed. I have installed PHP using Brew. I'm currently running PHP 8.1.8. If you want to check your installed version of PHP, use the terminal and run the following command:
php --version
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First we need to copy the installed PHP files to MAMP. Using Finder, navigate to
/usr/local/Cellar/phpand you should find a folder named after the installed version of PHP. For me it was8.1.8. Copy this folder. -
Navigate to the folder that MAMP stores PHP versions. For me this was
/Applications/MAMP/bin/php. Paste this folder here. -
Rename this folder to
php8.1.8(use your PHP version number). -
Next we need the PHP modile file. Navigate to
/usr/local/lib/httpdand copy themodulesfolder. Inside this folder is the PHP module file nameslibphp.so. -
Navigate to
/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php8.1.8and paste the modules folder. -
Close and restart MAMP.
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Choose PHP 8.1.8 from the frop down and you should be good to go!
I have a video walk-through on YouTube!
Thank you @analivko for the tip re the shortcut, that solved my initial setup problem.
For future visitors to this helpful gist, it sometimes helps to run
sudo /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/apachectl startfrom terminal, because that at least gives some hints as to where possible problems might be coming from. MAMP doesn't always log details for this error, but the terminal command shows where your .conf file is bad, for example.