Which is the best MAMP Port number?

[PicnicTutorials]

By default it is 8888. But in the virtual directory it seems to be 80. I changed the port number to 80 and now it works. But asks for my password each time. Any port number under 1024 needs a password apparently. Is there a magic port number? Or any old number will do.

 

[wgnoyes]

I put up with the inconvenience and put in my admin userid and pswd when starting up mamp. I don't want to have to key in localhost:nn/website/etc.

 

[PicnicTutorials]

I put up with the inconvenience and put in my admin userid and pswd when starting up mamp. I don't want to have to key in localhost:nn/website/etc.

I don't believe the port changes the "key in". http://mysite should work regardless of port you chose ya?

 

[chrfr]

http://mysite should work regardless of port you chose ya?

As you've seen, that only works at port 80 which is the default for http. Any other port will require http://mysite:XXXX

 

[PicnicTutorials]

As you've seen, that only works at port 80 which is the default for http. Any other port will require http://mysite:XXXX

Oh is that the case? I did not know that. I know 1 thing about ports now lol. Is there anyway around that - aka having to put the port number after?

 

[chrfr]

Is there anyway around that?

No.

 

[PicnicTutorials]

No.

originally I was trying http://mysite:8888 but it was not working. So I clicked the default port button in the preferences and it went to 80 and then all was good. I'm guessing if you use the port after it has to match the port in the /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf???

aka

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /Applications/MAMP/htdocs
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "/Users/username/Sites/mysite"
ServerName mysite
</VirtualHost>

So in this case of 80 it would be http://mysite:80. But not needed cuz it's 80. Is that correct?

 

[chrfr]

So in this case of 80 it would be http://mysite:80. But not needed cuz it's 80. Is that correct?

Correct.