MAMP local host not working

Question

My MacBook Pro 13 inch is running on OS X 10.8.2 and I have downloaded MAMP 2.1.4.

I want to run the MAMP program. After I connect to the servers successfully I then try

Answer 1

If it helps, I had this same issue and was missing the following from my /etc/hosts file. I had to sudo edit this file, add these values (I added them at the top), save and restart MAMP.

127.0.0.1       localhost
::1             localhost