MAMP Localhost not working (Error 500) - LWT

Question

I am trying to run LWT on my mac and have installed MAMP for this. I have followed these instructions, but when I try to go to http://localhost:8888/lwt/ I am getting:

The localhost page isn’t working

localhost is currently unable to handle this request.

500

I have created a different folder in my htdocs folder and created a php file in it (index.php), with some code to see if php is working:

<?php
echo "this is the start";
phpinfo();
echo "<br>this is the end";
?>

That is all fine and works. I have also checked the user-rights for the lwt folder, but it seems fine too (Admins & Me are Read&Write, Others are ReadOnly). Typing tail -f /Applications/MAMP/logs/php_error.log into the terminal gives me the following error log:

PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function mysql_connect() in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/lwt/utilities.inc.php:3272
Stack trace:
#0 /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/lwt/index.php(46): require_once()
#1 {main}
  thrown in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/lwt/utilities.inc.php on line 3272

I am a beginner though, so I don't know what else the problem could be. Any ideas?

Answer 1

I don't know which version of PHP you use. But the mysql_* function are deprecated and its possible that its not included in your new version anymore. Use mysqli_* to connect to your database or use PDO.

In the new version of MAMP is PHP7 included. Perhaps you use that.