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After having a go with XAMPP - which was more successful and quicker until I encountered the need to set up FTP parameters and became confused further - I went on to the Wordpress.org portal and found a slight modification to Hostinger's instructions. This was around making the database password ...

My apologies for not seeing this a few mins ago and thank you for replying.
It doesn't seem to make a difference if I put my document in the Applications/MAMP folder. (In fact I am trying to set up a local instantiation of Wordpress by following this info (Method 2): https://www.hostinger.com ...

Ok I have had no response to my original post (which was only made visible by a moderator a few hours ago).
I tried deleting v7.0 and downloading v6.9. I got further but was unable to connect to the MySQL / database server via Wordpress initialisation software.
I tried upgrading to v7.0 again and ...

I have followed instructions but it does not appear that the Apache server is starting. I opted for my document root to be away from Applications/MAMP (the documentation stated I can change the path). The Webstart icon is greyed out.
When stopping servers (orange icon) and restarting again, I get ...