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Where did you unzip the xerte installation package? How is the folder named that you put in the htdocs folder of MAMP?

I unzipped the Xerte installation package in the htdocs folder. The folder is named: xertetoolkits_3.3.MAMP servers are running and I have tried: localhost/xertetoolkits_3.3/setup/index.php and get the 'Object not found message'
I have gone to 'get info- on the htdocs and the xerte folders and set all permissions to 'Read and Write'

Ok. I tried to replicate what you did on my Mac mini.

Apperently MAMP starts apache on a non-standard port, so it doesn't work out of the box, without changing the url.

Please start the MAMP control program, go to the Ports tab, and press the 'Set Web & MySQL ports to 80 & 3306, then press OK.



Then localhost/xertetoolkits_3.3 should take you to the first page of setup.

I have done this - but the Apache server then won't start (see Screenshots 1 and 2).
At one point - I was running the Pro trial version, which I have now uninstalled, a message told me that Port 80 was causing a conflict with the system Apache. I have tried different port numbers, which seem to start the server, but then I still get 'object not found'!

Ok, so, there is a conflict with your setup. Let's try a different route then.

Please change the Apache port to 8888 and then go to the following URL:

http://localhost:8888/xertetoolkits_3.3

Huge progress - thank you. However, the creation of the SQL database fails, giving the error message:
SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Connection refused
I changed the database host setting, so the settings now look like this:

But this then returned the error message:
SQLSTATE[HY000] [2006] MySQL server has gone away
mySQL database is still showing green on MAMP dashboard.