A quick tour of MAMP PRO

Let's begin by opening up MAMP and taking a quick tour of the various settings and how we can go about using our local web server to install and configure a new Drupal 8 instance.

When we first open up MAMP, we will be prompted to launch either MAMP or MAMP PRO, as shown in the following image:

A quick tour of MAMP PRO

While MAMP is the free version of the local web server, it is strongly recommended that we use MAMP PRO for configuration and easy setup of a website. We can continue by clicking on Launch MAMP PRO, which will prompt us one more time to accept the Initialization of the remaining components that MAMP PRO needs before we can begin using ...

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