Title: Developing a WordPress site offline?
Last modified: April 20, 2017

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# Developing a WordPress site offline?

 *  [situ8](https://wordpress.org/support/users/situ8/)
 * (@situ8)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/developing-a-wordpress-site-offline/)
 * Hi,
 * I am currently developing a blogging website (www.thecornishtinyhouse.uk), which
   is now going well.
    This is a side project and my main aim now is to develop 
   a new website for the company I work for. They already have a website so all 
   I will need to do a WordPress site offline which can then be moved over to the
   correct domain.
 * My question is how do I go about developing a new site offline?
    I have heard
   the terms sub-domain and local host but it is a little confusing. If someone 
   could simplify it that would be fantastic.
 * Thank you

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 *  [Marklcm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marklcm/)
 * (@marklcm)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/developing-a-wordpress-site-offline/#post-9049222)
 * I use WAMP on a PC, and I think MAMP is available for mac, though have never 
   used it.
    WAMP can be downloaded from [http://www.wampserver.com/en/](http://www.wampserver.com/en/)
   and read the sticky posts at [http://forum.wampserver.com/list.php?2](http://forum.wampserver.com/list.php?2)
 * It has been years since I did, but Googling “using WAMP” or “using WAMP to develop
   WordPress locally” or something similar will probably bring up some good articles.
   Just be careful to use recently dated posts for up to date info.
 * There are other more advanced methods, but this is a good way to start.
    You 
   should be able to use a backup plugin to move your site to the server. Best of
   luck, it’s an interesting learning process
 *  [HudsonValleyWebDesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaycbrf/)
 * (@jaycbrf)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/developing-a-wordpress-site-offline/#post-9049451)
 * FYI –
 * Subdomain is [http://subdomain.domain.com](http://subdomain.domain.com)
 * just a folder in your hosting.
 * Localhost is the term giving to a folder on your computer that serves webpages.
 * WAMP, MAMP, XAMP are all programs that contain Apache, PHP, SQL and everything
   needed to set up a web server on your local machine.
 * You need a server environment to run PHP files, which is what WordPress is built
   on.
 * Once installed, you would see your WordPress site at [http://localhost/wordpress](http://localhost/wordpress)
 * To move the site to the live server when complete, you would have to use a Backup
   plugin to make a backup of the site and database.
 * You would then copy that file to the new server, restore the database and website.
   
   If the backup/restore plugin does not do it for you, you would need a database
   utility to change the url from localhost to the domain name.
 * I use Akeeba backup, it does the job very well.
 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/developing-a-wordpress-site-offline/#post-9050173)
 * The biggest problem in changing URLs in the DB from localhost to the proper domain
   name are any references in serialized data. A simple search and replace will 
   corrupt the serialized data schema. If you use a DB utility to do this, be sure
   it properly handles serialized data.
 * One way to avoid the whole localhost replacement thing is to add `www.thecornishtinyhouse.
   uk` to your local hosts file, mapped to 127.0.0.1. (with and without the www.)
   Then you can setup your new WP install using the proper domain name from the 
   start. When the DB is migrated to the production server, it’s ready to go.
 * The one problem with the hosts domain name scheme is you cannot access the real
   production site with that domain name, you need to get there through the site’s
   IP address and often with the hosting account reference appended. Or visit through
   another computer.

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