Moving a WordPress site from Windows to Mac?

  • brandanmcdevitt

    (@brandanmcdevitt)


    9 years, 9 months ago

    Hello,
    So firstly I am new to WordPress and I have UniServer installed which has all my .php files. I wanted to work on my site on my MacBook so installed MAMP and have created a database with the same information as that of UniServer. I have all my .php files in the root directory but when I load localhost it launches the 5 minute install of WordPress and asks me to create a new website.

    What am I doing wrong?

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  • Arnel C.

    (@arncus)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    Hello Brandanmcdevit,

    Sorry for the problem with getting your WordPress site working in MAMP. Your database reference is probably different than your other installation (on Uniserver). The 5 minute install typically shows when the WordPress database can’t be found. Use this guide from WordPress for the proper MAMP setup:

    https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_Locally_on_Your_Mac_With_MAMP

    Hope that helps!

    Regards,
    Arnel C.

    Thread Starter brandanmcdevitt

    (@brandanmcdevitt)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    Thanks. Within my WP-Config.php file it has the database information from Uniserver, I have tried creating a database on MAMP with those settings, not sure if that is correct or wrong.
    Im gonna try follow the link you posted now.

    Thread Starter brandanmcdevitt

    (@brandanmcdevitt)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    Sorry, I couldn’t figure out how to edit my previous post.

    So I have exported my database from phpMyAdmin on UniServer and copied all of the files inside the www folder.

    I then have loaded MAMP on my MacBook and set the root folder to the folder containing all my .php files from the www folder and imported my database within MAMPS phpMyAdmin and when I try to load the localhost I get a permission error.

    When loading localhost/wp-login.php It brings up my webpages name with a login page but when I enter correct information, I again get the permission error.

    Really not sure where to go from here now. I have granted my user account all permissions and my database, username, password and localhost are all matching that of my wp-config.php file.

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