WordPress backup local to remote similar to Akeeba for Joomla

  • jgroebuck

    (@jgroebuck)


    12 years, 9 months ago

    Hi,

    I normally develop websites using the Joomla CMS but I thought I’d do my latest web project with WordPress just to see what all the fuss is about.

    Within a few hours I realised how much better WordPress is – less cumbersome and I don’t need to wrestle with the CMS as much to get the site working the way I want.

    There is one thing worrying me though. I installed WordPress locally on XAMPP as I prefer not having to FTP everything during development. With Joomla it was easy to work locally and then use a Joomla component called Akeeba backup that zips up the whole website so it’s easy to drop on the server and unzip there with Akeeba kickstart.php that takes you through the whole installation process. It also installed the database. The primary good thing about it was being able to back up a website and database with 2 clicks of a button, which is then easy to install again if anything goes wrong.

    Foresight tells me this is not as easy with WordPress. Is there a plugin out there that matches Akeeba backup for Joomla? It seems I need a plugin to backup the website(not sure if the result is zipped) and then I will need to make a backup of the database seperately which means i need to go through PHPmyadmin to install it.

    Thanks,

    Jonathan

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    12 years, 9 months ago

    If you search for ‘moving wordpress from localhost’, there are a lot of tutorials on how to do it.

    The most basic is you copy up the files via FTP and then the database. if you’re using a hosts file to trick your local install into thinking yourdomain.com is on your local install and not your server, then you don’t even need to change the domain name in your database or wp-config.php.

    All that said, RAMP just came out 🙂

    http://alexking.org/blog/2011/07/20/ramp-content-deploy-wordpress

    It’s a pay for product, and I’ve yet to try it, but the guys behind it are smart cookies!

    Thread Starter jgroebuck

    (@jgroebuck)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Thanks, Ipstenu.

    RAMP looks pretty cool.

    I had a look at a couple of the tutorials for ‘moving wordpress from localhost’ and it’s pretty much what I expected. It looks messy. Not as easy as Akeeba backup for Joomla but I’ll just have to accept that. I might purchase RAMP one day to make it easier.

    Thread Starter jgroebuck

    (@jgroebuck)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Oh, you know you said

    if you’re using a hosts file to trick your local install into thinking yourdomain.com is on your local install and not your server, then you don’t even need to change the domain name in your database or wp-config.php

    could you please explain a little more??

    Thanks

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    12 years, 9 months ago

    http://wpmututorials.com/how-to/using-a-hosts-file/

    🙂 Basically you redirect yourdomain.com to your localhost but ONLY for yourself. I do that to build sites locally, and then when I’m ready to go live, I push it all up manually (FTP and a SQL import and it’s done). Nothing else needs to be done!

    Thread Starter jgroebuck

    (@jgroebuck)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    OK that looks pretty straightforward.

    Thanks, Ipstenu. I think you will have saved me a lot of time.

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