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1. smjohn
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I have a domain, http://www.mydomain.com/blog, I want it to move to my local machine. I am using mamp server with Leopard as my OS.

   I copied all the files to my machine to blog folder and took the backup of db and replaced all instances of http://www.mydomain.com/blog with http://localhost:8888/blog/ and imported it.

   When I run http://localhost:8888/blog/, the index page opens the remote http://www.mydomain.com/blog instead of my local copy of the blog.

   Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

   I've created wordpress blogs locally before. I've never had to move one from a remote server to my local system though.

2. rhysbwaller
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   im having exactly the same problem.

   this seems like a common issue...

3. kimmeehh
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Your database has references to the external blog. You should do a couple of things to get it working (or maybe you already have, in this case this reply is for future reference):

   your config file of wordpress
   

   define('DB_NAME', 'insert databse name here');
   define('DB_USER', 'root');
   define('DB_PASSWORD', '');
   define('DB_HOST', 'Localhost');

   Localhost with capital!

   in your sql-window, type
   

   UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = REPLACE(option_value, 'http://www.your-livesite.com', 'http://your-local.site') WHERE option_name = 'home' OR option_name = 'siteurl';
   UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = REPLACE(guid, 'http://www.your-livesite.com','http://your-local.site');
   UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = REPLACE(post_content, 'http://www.your-livesite.coml', 'http://your-local.site');

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