Posted 11 months ago #
So I setup XAMPP and a local installation of WP for development purposes. I uploaded the database from my web-server onto localhost/myphapadmin and altered the config file for my WP installation accordingly.
Everything seems to work fine except that when I try to log onto my wordpress installation via localhost it just redirects me to the live website that I exported from...
What gives?
Change the site URL.
See http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress and http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL
Posted 11 months ago #
So what would I change it to in this instance? localhost/wordpress/[anysite]?
Posted 11 months ago #
bdigges,
Here's the basic thing you need to do when migrating your wordpress site to any location eg. localhost or remote servers:
Migrate all files
Export database and do a search and replace query to modify the
following:
file paths to the target paths
site url instances to target url
Dump the updated sql file/database to target database
Configure wp-config accordingly.
If you follow these properly you will not have any problem.
Regards,
MyGreenHosting
Posted 11 months ago #
"file paths to the target paths
site url instances to target url"
This is the part that I don't quite understand. Could you elaborate?
Posted 11 months ago #
bdigges,
file paths to the target paths :
this is the link for a file that i used in your system.
example: home/public_html/wp-include
3232dsd/var/www/vhost/site/wp-include
these paths are saved in your database, Thus, you will need to modify it so your system locates the needed files in your local system.
site url instances to target url:
this is the url of the original site which you would want to change to your local link/url.
example: from http://www.site.com to localhost/site
this could be the reason why your site is pointing back to the livesite when you try to navigate your site locally.
Regards,
MyGreenHosting
You need to change it to the URL used to access your local XAMPP server. That's probably localhost/<sitename>, but it really depends on how you've configured your web server.
Posted 11 months ago #
I changed the site url from my live WP site and now I can't get there to access the admin to change it back. Help?
Posted 11 months ago #
bdigges,
Can you explain how you changed your url?
Regards,
MyGreenHosting
Posted 11 months ago #
I went to the admin panel -> Settings -> General and changed it to http://localhost/site
but afterwards I was unable to login...I fixed it, sorta, by changing the 'site url' and 'home' columns (I think they're called that) in myphp.
I can see the homepage now, but none of my links are working. Could you help me?
Posted 11 months ago #
Hi bdigges,
As I said on the above advice.
You may want to export first your database.
Open it in notepad or notepad++
do Search And Replace
From : live url to your local url
From : live file paths to your local file paths
Then everything will work properly.
You can post here whats your livesite link and your local link
and livesite file path and local file path
So i Can best assist you on what to search and replace.
Best Regards,
MyGreenHosting
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