Title: Possible Installation Problem
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Possible Installation Problem

 *  [cp1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cp1/)
 * (@cp1)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/possible-installation-problem/)
 * I am having a problem installing WordPress and maybe I can get some advice here.
 * I am working on a Live site that someone else created. I wanted to install it
   on my local machine to do some development, create a plugin, add some javascript.
   The problem is on my local machine none of the plugin js or stylesheets are being
   loaded. I verified this by looking at the page’s code and by opening my web console
   and seeing what is loading.
 * Both sites have the same plugins, configured the same, the same theme, but look
   different. Since none of the plugin js is being loaded when I write a plugin 
   it shows up in the admin just fine but nothing happens on the frontend.
 * The live site is [http://www.website.com](http://www.website.com). On my local
   machine it is localhost/folder/welcome.html.
 * I went in and added the js include to welcome.html and moved it to my live site,
   and of course it is not showing up.
 * It think something is wrong with my install.
 * Here’s the steps I took and maybe someone can tell me where I went wrong.
 * I used a tar command to compress the files on the web host, I scp’d the file 
   to my computer and un-tar’d it. I installed a MAMP server and pointed the root
   to the folder containing all the files and folders that I moved. I backed up 
   and installed the database on my computer. I updated the wp-config with the new
   database info and updated ‘WP_HOME’ and ‘WP_SITEURL’ with the new url, which 
   is localhost.
 * Boom! everything seems like it works. I can get to my admin, the database is 
   good. The site though, has the same basic info, but looks different, even though
   they are using the same theme.
 * Any ideas on what is going on. Is my document root wrong?

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 *  [wpguppy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpguppy/)
 * (@wpguppy)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/possible-installation-problem/#post-7050106)
 * Are you missing images?
    Did you try an other browser?
 *  Thread Starter [cp1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cp1/)
 * (@cp1)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/possible-installation-problem/#post-7050122)
 * The most of the images are different, the look is different. I noticed some of
   the style sheets were not being loaded when I used the web console.
 * I am using two browsers, Firefox and Safari.
 * Am I correct that I just need to copy all the files and folders to a folder on
   my computer then set my document root to that folder? It seems to work, all the
   pages are there and the links work. Its just not loading stylesheets and javascript
   from plugins like the live site is. Basically, the plugins that were installed
   on the live site are not working or being loaded on my local site. I can’t figure
   out why. It seems simple but I cannot get past this issue. When I go to localhost
   it is redirected to localhost/folder/Welcome.html. The live site does not redirect
   to Welcome.html.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [cp1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cp1/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/possible-installation-problem/#post-7050122)
 * Status: not resolved

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