Title: localhost website transfer
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# localhost website transfer

 *  [mjhenterprises](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mjhenterprises/)
 * (@mjhenterprises)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localhost-website-transfer/)
 * I created a WP website on my laptop (localhost) and would like to replace an 
   existing WP website on a third party web host server that is live on the Internet
   with my newly created site. I’ve browsed the topics available in the forum and
   have found that they refer to movement on the same server. Any assistance with
   finding instructions for my situation is greatly appreciated.

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 *  [Lucas Karpiuk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/karpstrucking/)
 * (@karpstrucking)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localhost-website-transfer/#post-5056713)
 * Hello,
 * There is a section of the “Moving WordPress” page in the codex:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Moving_to_a_New_Server](http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Moving_to_a_New_Server)
 * Thanks,
    Lucas
 *  Thread Starter [mjhenterprises](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mjhenterprises/)
 * (@mjhenterprises)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localhost-website-transfer/#post-5056718)
 * Okay…I read the article, but now I need clarification. To me, my “old site” is
   the existing website on the 3rd party web host server and my “new site” is the
   website I created on my laptop that I wish to move to the 3rd party web host 
   server to replace the existing website.
 * So step 1 of “If You Don’t Care Whether Your Old Site Works” instructs you to
   edit wp-config.php of your OLD site to suit the new server, but my “old site”
   is on the server I want to use. Step 2 directs you to change the URL of the old
   site to that of the new site, but I want the new site to have the same URL of
   my old site.
 * Am I misunderstanding the instructions? Or do I have the concept of moving a 
   newly created website on my laptop (not public on the Internet) to my 3rd party
   web host server via ftp or other methods to replace/remodel my existing website
   totally misconstrued?
 *  [2ninerniner2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/2ninerniner2/)
 * (@2ninerniner2)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localhost-website-transfer/#post-5056873)
 * As you know that the site your built locally “works”, that is, all the themes,
   plugins, media etc. are where they should be, the version numbers “match”, why
   take a chance with what shape the existing site is in; just replace it, and here
   is what I would do:
 * On the “existing WP site”
 * – move the contents of the current site to a new sub-folder for “safe keeping”
   –
   upload the complete contents of the local site to where those files were – create
   a new, empty database and import the export of the local site into it – edit 
   the siteurl and home fields in the wp_options table with the live site’s URL –
   edit the wp_config.php file that has been uploaded to the live site with the 
   new database connection credentials – log into the now “new” live site and install
   and run this plugin to update the URLs:
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/velvet-blues-update-urls/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/velvet-blues-update-urls/)
 * – upload and run this script to update any URLs that are stored in the DB as 
   serialized strings (which the above plugin doesn’t handle):
 * [https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/](https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/)
 * – go to Settings > Permalinks and just re-save
 * Done! … have done this often and takes about 5 minutes 🙂

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 * In: [Localhost Installs](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/localhost-installs/)
 * 3 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [2ninerniner2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/2ninerniner2/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localhost-website-transfer/#post-5056873)
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