Title: Installing duplicate testsite
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Installing duplicate testsite

 *  Resolved [Magistar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/magistar/)
 * (@magistar)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-duplicate-testsite/)
 * So I have had some issues when duplicating WordPress to my local XAMPP. Fortunately
   I was able to solve them.
 * First issue: No database connection
    Solution: Change % to localhost in phpmyadmin
 * Second issue: Logging in referred me too my live website
    Solution: Adding code
   to the config to force wordpress to rediscover the url
 * Latest issue: I am unable to regenerate thumbnails on my duplicate site.
 * Error:
    [original] 1280 x 720: ERROR: Could not find /home/wxxxxx/domains/xxxx.
   com/public_html/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/tropico5-review-featured.jpg
 * Obviously the path is now somewhere totally different (C:/XAMPP/htdocs/gp1) but
   I have not figured out where in WordPress I would change this.
 * Any suggestions?

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 *  [michalzuber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michalzuber/)
 * (@michalzuber)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-duplicate-testsite/#post-4963525)
 * Maybe changing guid in wp_posts table in the database might help.
 *  [2ninerniner2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/2ninerniner2/)
 * (@2ninerniner2)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-duplicate-testsite/#post-4963531)
 * First:
    – the default XAMPP database user name is root with NO password (leave
   it empty)
 * Second:
    – edit the siteurl and home fields in the wp_options table of your local
   wordpress database to reflect it’s new location; for example, if you have WP 
   in a folder named `wordpress` within XAMPP’s htdocs, then this is the value you
   enter:
 * `http://localhost/wordpress`
 * Third:
    – log in to the WP dashboard and install and run this plugin: [http://wordpress.org/plugins/velvet-blues-update-urls/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/velvet-blues-update-urls/)–
   go to Settings > Permalinks and just re-save
 * Now try to re-gen the thumbnails 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [Magistar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/magistar/)
 * (@magistar)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-duplicate-testsite/#post-4963556)
 * Thanks for the info.
 * Will try that plugin:).
 * (ps: I did set a password using the “security” setup from XAMPP).
 *  Thread Starter [Magistar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/magistar/)
 * (@magistar)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-duplicate-testsite/#post-4963581)
 * Unfortunately updating the url did not fix the image file location issue. I guess
   the general principle was right but the wrong stuff was targetted…
 * My images still think they are at /home/wxxx/domains/ instead of /htdocs/gptest/
 *  Thread Starter [Magistar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/magistar/)
 * (@magistar)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-duplicate-testsite/#post-4963588)
 * Update: Thanks to the Simple Image Sizes I found a string
 * > Store uploads in this folder: WRONG URL
   >  Default is wp-content/uploads
 * However my host is linux and I am using windows 7 + XAMPP so I am unsure what
   the path should look like.
 *  Thread Starter [Magistar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/magistar/)
 * (@magistar)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-duplicate-testsite/#post-4963650)
 * Ok I have solved it by doing some steps.
 * step1: Another clean install of wordpress. This time INSTALL the theme.
    step2:
   verify the new theme that you can upload and regenerate thumbnails step3: search
   in phpmyadmin for “xampp” step4: You found the path!
 * In my case C:\xampp\htdocs\gp2/wp-content/uploads
 * Step5: Install a new wordpress, copy over your wp-content folder, drop sql and
   import your sql site.
    step6: Go to media>settings and adjust the path to the
   one found at step 4.
 * Phew…

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