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1. nhiggs
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   Hello.
   I have a multi-site network with 3 sub-domains and want to check that some of the recent plugin updates are safe before I put them live.

   However, I am unsure how to get this network running locally.

   I have only just gone to multi-site. Previously when I had a single site I just ftp'd my entire www directory to my hard-drive and then exported my database from within myphpadmin. I then used wamp to get the site going locally. This involved changing the home and site-url to my local address (i.e. from http://www.mysite.com to local.mysite.com).

   That all worked fine, but I am a little concerned that their may be more to it when using multi-site. Anyone got any advice?

   Cheers,
   N

2. Ipstenu
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 7 months ago #

   You'll want to re-jigger your hosts file on your PC to map those subdomains, but that should pretty much work.

3. Andrea_r
   team pirate
   Posted 7 months ago #

   http://wpmututorials.com/how-to/using-a-hosts-file/ :)

4. nhiggs
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   Of course! Thanks for the link Andrea, I completely missed that you could set the site urls to actually point to my local site!

5. nhiggs
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   Hmmm... Don't think I quite get all the required setup yet.
   When going to my site nearlynewnearyou.co.uk (after making it so that it will use the local version) I get "Error establishing a database connection"

   In my httpd.conf I have:
   

   <VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
     DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www/nearlynewnearyou.co.uk"
     ServerName nearlynewnearyou.co.uk
     ServerAlias *.nearlynewnearyou.co.uk
     ErrorLog "C:/wamp/www/nearlynewnearyou.co.uk/errors/errors.log"
   </VirtualHost>

   In my wp-config I have (some details changed as I guessed it would cause a security issue if it were the real data):
   

   define('DB_NAME', 'mydbname');
   define('DB_USER', 'myusername');
   define('DB_PASSWORD', 'mypassword');
   define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
   define('WP_HOME', 'http://nearlynewnearyou.co.uk');
   define('WP_SITEURL', 'http://nearlynewnearyou.co.uk');

   and my hosts looks like this:
   

   127.0.0.1       localhost
   127.0.0.1       nearlynewnearyou.co.uk
   127.0.0.1       warwick.nearlynewnearyou.co.uk
   127.0.0.1       halloween.nearlynewnearyou.co.uk

   myphpadmin shows that I have a database called 'mydname' (matches what is in wp-config) and under privileges of that db a user called 'myusername' with a password of 'mypassword' (both match what is in wp-config) and set to have all privileges.

   I have exported the live site db 'mydbname' and then imported that data back into the local 'mydbname'

   I also ftp'd all the live sites public_html into C:\wamp\www\nearlynewnearyou.co.uk\

   Any idea what I could have done wrong to get that error?

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