by Usman Asar.
Tonya,
Setup your MAMP making sure its using the usual ports 80 for Apache and 3306 for MySQL as opposed to defaults that come as 8888 for Apache and 8889 for MySQL.
Second, use finder and find yourself a file called envvars to _envvars
alternatively you'll find the file at Applications/MAMP/Library/bin
make sure your MAMP server is stopped during that whole process.