I can't access phpmyadmin with mamp

swydell picture swydell · Dec 28, 2011 · Viewed 36.4k times · Source

I have MAMP installed on my Mac Book Pro OS 10.6.8. The open start page on my MAMP is grayed out now. The Apache server button is green. The MySQL server button is red.

At one time I could access phpmyadmin. I have my php files in htdocs folder of MAMP that I can access in localhost:8888/filename.php. I want to create another database and table but I can't access phpmyadmin. I even downloaded phpmyadmin to my desktop but I don't know how to open it. Any suggestions

Answer

brentlightsey picture brentlightsey · Feb 24, 2017

On the latest version of MAMP (4.1.1), the default option in the settings was set to "PHP 7.1.1". After I set the default option to 7.0.15, the PHPmyAdmin tools were no longer grayed and worked fine.

Screenshot of PHP tab of MAMP preferences