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• download MAMP https://www.mamp.info/en/downloads/
• run the installer (it's both MAMP and MAMP PRO, but you'll only use MAMP)

• Lute requires at least PHP 8.1, but as of now MAMP comes with max version 8.0.8. I think there are a few ways to get v 8.1, but the clearest set of instruction I found was from https://gist.github.com/codeadamca/09efb674f54172cbee887f04f700fe7c. Copied below:
  • if you don't have homebrew already, get it: https://treehouse.github.io/installation-guides/mac/homebrew
  • install PHP v.8.1 on your system, outside of MAMP, using homebrew (https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/php): brew install [email protected]
  • using Finder, Menu > Go > Go to Folder /usr/local/Cellar/php, and copy the right folder (for me, it was 8.1.13).
  • using Finder, Go to Folder /Applications/MAMP/bin/php. There will be a bunch of php folders in there; paste the folder you just copied. Add php to the start of the folder name (e.g. php8.1.13) so it follows the naming convention of the others.

• Go to Folder /usr/local/lib/httpd. Copy the modules folder.
• Go to Folder /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/, and paste the modules folder inside the phpXXX folder you just created (e.g. php8.1.13)
• Close and restart MAMP, and you should be able to pick version php8.1.13 in the dropdown.

• Go to Folder /usr/local/lib/httpd/modules. That folder contains libphp.so, so you might think you've copied that file to MAMP in the prior step ... but unfortunately, that's not the case! That file is potentially just a shortcut to another file, and Apache doesn't like that. Cue single tear.
• Right click libphp.so, and click "Show original." Copy that file.
• Go to Folder /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php8.1.13/modules, and paste the good libphp.so file you just copied, replacing the old libphp.so.

You can get Lute into the htdocs folder in MAMP in one of two ways:

• If you're a software person: Clone the git repo inside the htdocs folder in MAMP (Applications/MAMP/htdocs), use composer install --dev to install all the dependencies, and then create an .env.local file, using .env.local.example as a template.
• If you're a regular human :-) get the latest lute_release.zip, and unzip it inside of htdocs. When you unzip the file, your htdocs folder should contain a lute_release folder.

The structure should be as follows:

- Applications
  - MAMP
    - htdocs
      - lute (or lute_release)
        .env
        .env.local
        ...
        + bin
        + config
        + db
        ... etc.

Next, we need to change MAMP to that it's serving LWT from the root folder.

In Menu > MAMP > Preferences > Server tab, for the Document Root, click "Choose", and select "Applications/MAMP/htdocs/lute/public" as the document root.

Note: if you're already running other sites on MAMP, you can add Lute as a Virtual Host. I'll assume you already know how to do this, and how to update your /etc/hosts.

In your editor, open the file /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/httpd.conf. This is the main Apache configuration file.

In this file, there will be a long list of lines starting with "LoadModule". Ensure that the libphp.so file is referenced in this list, it will be a line like the following:

LoadModule php_module        /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php8.1.13/modules/libphp.so

Update the User to your computer username. You can get that via terminal with id -un. For me, that returned jeff, so I have:

User jeff

A few lines down from User, you'll see this:

DocumentRoot "/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/lute_release/public"

That was the change you made earlier in MAMP preferences. fyi only.

Change

<Directory />
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
</Directory>

to:

<Directory />
    AllowOverride none
    Require all denied
</Directory>

Change Options All to Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews

In the file /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/lute_release/.env.local, set the DB_HOSTNAME exactly as follows:

DB_HOSTNAME=127.0.0.1:8889

THE LINE MUST BE EXACTLY AS ABOVE. If it is anything else (localhost, localhost:8889, 127.0.0.1), it won't work! Unfortunately, I haven't had time to figure out why ... and I'm not sure I care, really. 127.0.0.1:8889 works and is stable!

Leave the rest of the settings as-is. (MAMP uses username=root, password=root as the defaults, so the values set in the .env.local are fine, and Lute will set up the lute_demo database when it starts up).

All of the above might have felt pretty hairy -- hopefully not.

(if it bombs with an "Apache can't start" error, try starting it from the command line:

/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/apachectl start

The above might give you more information on what is wrong.

And hopefully everything is hunky-dory. :-)