Moving wordpress install to another computer

  • rcookney

    (@rcookney)


    8 years, 4 months ago

    Hi All,

    I have a local install of my wordpress site on computer 1 and I needed it on computer 2. I’m using WAMP

    The install on computer 1 works fine and to get my site to computer 2, I did the following…

    1. copied all my files from my site on computer 1 and put them in a new folder in WAMP on computer 2
    2. set up a new database on computer 2 and imported the database (which I had exported from computer 1)

    When I go to localhost/test on computer 2, the homepage comes up albeit unstyled. And all other pages are just blank/white.

    Could anyone please shed some light on what is going wrong?

    Thanks

    Rose

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    8 years, 4 months ago

    You need to review Moving_WordPress.

    Thread Starter rcookney

    (@rcookney)

    8 years, 4 months ago

    Thank Esmi – I have done that prior to posting here.

    Since I changed from one localhost to another I followed the ‘Keeping Your Domain Name and URLs’ section

    Done – If database and URL remain the same, you can move by just copying your files and database.

    Database and username not changed – If database name or user changes, edit wp-config.php to have the correct values.

    If you had any kind of rewrites (permalinks) setup you must disable .htaccess and reconfigure permalinks when it goes live – I did disable .htaccess but I can’t reconfigure permalinks as I can’t get to the wp login page.

    Thanks,

    Rose

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