Moving a live site to MAMP on a MAC

Submitted by Thomasr976 on Tue, 05/05/2009 - 03:03
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Help!!! I have a live site that has about 100 nodes and want to move it to MAMP on my Mac so that I can add what I have learned with Dorien's book. I have been using http://drupal.org/node/232460 but I am stuck. I can't modify the .htacess file in step 4 because I can't see it and it's a system file on the Mac.

How do I get around this? Are there alternatives to moving a site to a test site?

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1. Is there an option to display

Submitted by dorien on Wed, 05/06/2009 - 10:03.

Is there an option to display hidden files in your browser?

Otherwise open a console and type:

cd /thedirectoryofthefile

ls -l

to see if it is there

vi ./.htaccess

to edit the file with the text editor vi (this is a special user interface though, which requires some getting used to). If you have the editor kate, you can replace vi by kate. Or try with the name of your favourite editor.