Installing Craft 3 locally with MAMP

craft.txt

https://docs.craftcms.com/v3/installation.html#step-1-download-craft

Make sure hidden files are visible

Download Craft zip file from link above or install with composer: composer create-project craftcms/craft <Path>

Open MAMP -- no need to start servers yet -- go to Preferences > Web Server and set the document root to be the "web" folder inside the Craft directory.

Set Permissions on directories within project:

.env
composer.json
composer.lock
config/license.key
storage/*
vendor/*
web/cpresources/*

Start MAMP servers.

Open up PHPmyAdmin and create a database for the project. There is no need to update db.php. A .env file will be created when running ./craft setup and db.php will reference the values there (attempting to edit db.php will likely cause install errors).

CD into project root and run 'chmod a+x craft' to make this file executable. This will allow use of the Craft CLI.

Security Key Config:
./craft setup/security-key

Run
./craft setup

Enter information prompted (DB creds, admin login, site name). This command will write information to the designated files (i.e. write DB creds to the .env file that db.php references.)

This can also be done in the browser: http://<Hostname>/index.php?p=admin/install

However, this was not working for a localhost install. Setup command above was required.

After setup completion was able to login to the dashboard.


Docs

https://docs.craftcms.com/v3/