Reinstalled xampp but can’t get my site back

etarcosmark
(@etarcosmark)

5 years, 4 months ago

Hi guys, here’s my issue. I had Xampp as local server and it stopped working recently so I decided to save the whole xampp folder (with the htdocs) and reinstall it but when I copy my former site folder in the new htdocs, it doesn’t work. I can’t have access to wp and the site.

Did i mess and didn’t back up properly ? Again, I have the whole former xammpp folder with both the sever and wp data, so please tell me there’s a way to fix it…

Thanks everyone, I’m freaking out now.

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Dion
(@diondesigns)

5 years, 4 months ago

If you saved your entire Xampp folder, you might be OK.

In addition to the site folder, you also need to replace the MySQL database folder. On Windows systems it’s usually the /data folder inside the main MySQL folder.

Make sure to disable MySQL from within Xampp before doing the replacement, or bad things will happen. 🙂

gunanibharat
(@gunanibharat)

5 years, 4 months ago

you just need to follow the below steps to make the website back into your new xampp installation

1) Copy your “former” site folder into the “xampp\htdocs”
2) Open the phpmyadmin to intall the former site database (i believe you have already keep backup of your former site database)
3) Once you upload the database just make sure your all tables installed on the same database details
4) just try load the site from the browser and your site will start working

Still if you face any issues just let me know

Thanks
Bharat
Thread Starter etarcosmark
(@etarcosmark)

5 years, 4 months ago
Thanks guys and specially Dion… Remind me to buy you a beer or two…
I just copied the whole Mysql folder and got my site back… Yay !!!

I just read by the way, working on local host to entirely stage your live site wasn’t necessarily a good idea cos configurations are different and I won’t get the same results live when transfering it live… Can you confirm it’s better to create a live sub-domain ?

Thanks again bros, much appreciated.

One last thing, not wp related… I tried to make a clear install of windows 10 recently cos it was really to buggy but at some point it tells me it isn’t posible.

RAM issue (I got 4Go) ? I bought 16Go this week and will see if changes anything…
- This reply was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by etarcosmark.
HudsonValleyWebDesign
(@jaycbrf)

5 years, 4 months ago

I just read by the way, working on local host to entirely stage your live site wasn’t necessarily a good idea cos configurations are different and I won’t get the same results live when transfering it live… Can you confirm it’s better to create a live sub-domain ?

I develop all client sites locally on my laptop and then migrate an EXACT duplicate to the client’s live server. Results always 100% exact and as expected. Wherever you read that, they were wrong.

One last thing, not wp related… I tried to make a clear install of windows 10 recently cos it was really to buggy but at some point it tells me it isn’t posible.

Not for this forum.