Sage/Bedrock with MAMP: can't connect to MySQL

sage
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Hi there

Just setting up Sage/Bedrock without Trellis and Vagrant and am running the installation on my local machine via MAMP.

All is good except when I set my DB_HOST in the .env file, I can’t connect.

I have other non-Bedrock sites running in MAMP all of which work fine with “localhost” as the db host setting.

I’ve tried this as well as localhost:8889 as this is the port that MAMP uses for MySQL.

Any clues on how to get my wordpress installation to connect to the database?

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It should be the same as what you put in wp-config.php

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Yeah, that’s what I would have thought. Will keep investigating.

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Do you mean you get the “Cannot connect to the database” error?

I ask because many new to Bedrock don’t know to set up the Apache/nginx document root to the web folder

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Ah, it was simply a port issue in MAMP at my end — I simply needed to set MySQL to connect over a different port from the default 8889.