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Fix local WordPress updates stuck in Maintenance Mode on macOS with MAMP

When you are running a local copy of Wordpress in a MAMP development environment on your Mac, you might have run into troubles with Wordpress being “stuck” in maintenance mode after trying to update Wordpress (plugins, themes or core updates). In order to fix this – and have your precious Wordpress updates run through smoothly again locally – you can use a chmod-command with the Terminal.app in macOS.

OS X: org.apache.httpd (13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80

I am working on Mac OS 10.5.6 Leopard. Today I recognized, that every 10 seconds Apache forced the following error messages to appear in my console.log: org.apache.httpd[10664] (13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80 org.apache.httpd[10664] (13)Permission denied: make_sock:… Continue reading » “OS X: org.apache.httpd (13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80”