Comments on: Installing Concrete5 locally on Mac OS X

By: Phillip

Phillip — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:26:04 +0000

I have installed MAMP and Concrete5… but now, I need to Install a Theme so I can edit it and get it setup for a new website I’m developing… one (ahem) “small” problem (a BIGGIE actually)… I can Concrete to recognize the theme in the folder… it SHOWS me the template is there, but when I click on “Install” it just sits there… any ideas???

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:38:39 +0000

“Local” is on your own computer.

By: tim

tim — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:51:44 +0000

I’m a newbie here so when you say “local” can you tell me what this mean, thanks

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:50:25 +0000

Yeah, it definitely is. But you only have to do it when your site is local.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:43:17 +0000

I have a running C5 site at the root of a snow leopard, os x serve.

I can’t be reading the preceding correctly, the whole site is going to be read/write to anyone. Doesn’t that pose a security risk?

By: John

John — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:11:54 +0000

I have the same problem as you. I hope we can get a response.

By: yaskaz

yaskaz — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:37:37 +0000

At first, thank you for your great information! > Peter

Bruno,

I got the same problem.

open -e /Applications/MAMP/conf/php5/php.ini

then find and modify following setting of php’s memory limit from

memory_limit = 8M

memory_limit = 128M

Save the change, reboot Apache server from MAMP panel and try install Concrete5 again.

By: Maz

Maz — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:35:03 +0000

Hi,

I’ve been trying to do this and seems all good until the very last point.

I go to http://localhost:8888/concrete/
fill all the details, and as I click install concrete, I get this message:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 1500 bytes) in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/concrete/concrete5.3.2/concrete/libraries/3rdparty/adodb/adodb.inc.php on line 998

I have tried re-installing both MAMP and concrete and I still get the same message.

I use Mac OS X Leopard.
Desperate to get this running.. any help will be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
Maz

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:52:16 +0000

Wow, congratulations, Lawrence! Finally it’s working! I have now corrected the ‘db_concrete’ issue, it was an error. As you have created a database of the name ‘concrete’, the name should of course also be used in the Concrete5 installation. Thanks!

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:38:00 +0000

Peter,

I used your suggestions, but it still would not work. Then I changed the Database name on the Install Concrete Page from “db_concrete”, to just “concrete”, and it is now working. I noticed in your instructions above that you recommended using “db_concrete”. I wonder if others have been having the same problem, and this might be what is needed to resolve that. Thank you for your time.

Lawrence