Dear WP Developer Diary
LOL, just kidding!
Hi everyone
So far, I’ve done these steps and my attempt failed:
– donwloaded remote DB
– imported remote db to my http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ (same name)
– created same remote db user at localhost phpmyadmin, and GRANTed priviledges
– backed up my local wp-config.php file (pointing to the original working db)
– updated wp-config.php variables to reflect the remote settings:
define(‘DB_NAME’, …
define(‘DB_USER’, …
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, …
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);
define(‘DB_CHARSET’, …
– created the wp-content/db.php (below the code)
<?php
// paste this in a (new) file, wp-content/db.php
add_filter ( 'pre_option_home', 'test_localhosts' );
add_filter ( 'pre_option_siteurl', 'test_localhosts' );
function test_localhosts( ) {
// intercept these options
if ($option == "siteurl" || $option == "home") {
// test localhost
$http_host = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
echo $http_host;
if (strpos($http_host, 'localhost') !== false) {
return "http://localhost:8080/my-local-website/_wordpress/";
}
}
else return false; // act as normal; will pull main site info from db
}
So far attempt failed!
Localhost wp copy redirects me to remote wp site.
Tested php strpos function on a different file and return true on checking if my server HTTP_HOST has the string/word ‘localhost’ on it
Any help, it will be kindly appreciated!
Tks
