Title: From Localhost to ISP Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # From Localhost to ISP * Resolved [shellfish](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shellfish/) * (@shellfish) * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/from-localhost-to-isp/) * Hey, * I’m pretty new to WordPress…I totally love it! * I’ve been running wordpress under localhost for testing purposes having set up a database on my computer using PHPMyAdmin. * I now would like to move it across to my hosting account under my web address. I’ve FTPed the whole wordpress folder but none of the wordpress stuff is working… it comes up with a database error? * Would someone mind explaining to me the best way to move from my own server to my host provider instead. * Any help woould be ace. Thanks Shell Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) * [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/) * (@michaelh) * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/from-localhost-to-isp/#post-672559) * You will need to backup your MySQL database via [phpMyAdmin](http://codex.wordpress.org/phpMyAdmin) and import that into MySQL on your new host. * See [Moving WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress) for details. * Thread Starter [shellfish](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shellfish/) * (@shellfish) * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/from-localhost-to-isp/#post-672560) * That makes sense…thanks for the link! Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) The topic ‘From Localhost to ISP’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 2 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [shellfish](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shellfish/) * Last activity: [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/from-localhost-to-isp/#post-672560) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics