Migration from local MAMP to shared dev on web server

  • dchesnick

    (@dchesnick)


    12 years, 4 months ago

    Here’s my situation…
    My company has an existing site. The site is not built using WordPress, nor is it on a WordPress-friendly hosting service. I’ve built them a proposed site using WordPress and MAMP on my local machine.

    Next steps:
    I want to migrate the WP site and database I’ve built to a dev environment (on a wordpress-friendly host) that other stakeholders can access and learn how to administer the site.
    When I’m ready, and like my new site and content, I want to migrate my domain from the existing host to the new host and the new content
    Possible? How?? Please be specific. Thanks!!!

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  • covertnine

    (@ttoomey)

    12 years, 4 months ago

    Yes this is very possible, and what you’ve asked is a somewhat loaded question as there are a ton of variables involved with migrating a local site onto a live server.

    For one, your WordPress config file will have to have the MySQL user/pass/host updated to reflect your live website’s environment. On top of that, you’ll need to edit a few lines in your wp_options table to reflect the new website’s home so that all of your links will work…

    There are plugins to help with changing image paths and items in posts called “search and replace” and there’s also some pretty well-documented WordPress pages for this here:

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress

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