Title: Installing WordPress locally
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Installing WordPress locally

 *  [michaelny07](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelny07/)
 * (@michaelny07)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-wordpress-locally-1/)
 * I have a WordPress blog which is running fine online, now I am trying to install
   my blog locally in order to be able to easily edit, test the theme before applying
   it online, so I following those steps:
 * Note: I am having an Ubuntu laptop with XAMPP installed and configured on it
 * A. I downloaded all the public_html folder content of my blog which contains (
   wp-content, wp-includes…etc) to my local XAMPP web server root directory under/
   www/blog/
 * B. I exported the database of my blog using phpMyAdmin, then imported it again
   in my laptop using XAMPP – phpMyAdmin then defined locally the same db user name/
   password I was using online
 * C. I tried to navigate to [http://localhost/blog/](http://localhost/blog/)
 * Instead of loading the blog locally, I found myself routed to my online blog 
   while showing the following URL in the browser address bar
 * [http://www.mydomainblog.com/localhost/blog/](http://www.mydomainblog.com/localhost/blog/)
 * I tried again logging to the admin area by typing
    [http://www.mydomainblog.com/localhost/blog/wp-login.php](http://www.mydomainblog.com/localhost/blog/wp-login.php)
 * After successfully logging, I found myself again routed to my online blog control
   panel
 * Can someone please tell me what exactly I am missing here? What shall I do to
   be able to work only locally without getting routed online?
 * Thanks in advance
 * Michael

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-wordpress-locally-1/#post-917721)
 * Take a look at [Moving WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress)
   for discussion on moving a blog.

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 * Last reply from: [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-wordpress-locally-1/#post-917721)
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