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 *   Forum: [Localhost Installs](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/localhost-installs/)
   
   In reply to: [Localhost to Public – Do I need two separate databases?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localhost-to-public-do-i-need-two-separate-databases/)
 *  Thread Starter [beccenstein](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beccenstein/)
 * (@beccenstein)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localhost-to-public-do-i-need-two-separate-databases/#post-7348095)
 * Thanks so much for clarifying that, and thanks for your patience 🙂
 * Things are starting to add up now, I have everything connected and all the parts
   are talking to eachother which is a success for an absolute beginner anyway!
 * Thanks again
 *   Forum: [Localhost Installs](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/localhost-installs/)
   
   In reply to: [Localhost to Public – Do I need two separate databases?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localhost-to-public-do-i-need-two-separate-databases/)
 *  Thread Starter [beccenstein](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beccenstein/)
 * (@beccenstein)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localhost-to-public-do-i-need-two-separate-databases/#post-7348054)
 * Thank you for the response Lyle, I did as you suggested; imported my original
   database into a new, empty one, and had the urls set to the live site. Then I
   installed and activated that plugin.
 * The permalinks no longer display that error, and the live site is looking 100%
   🙂 Cheers!
 * The problems I mentioned in the first of my two posts, however, are still there.
   The local version of my site seems to be in tatters, and I’m unsure of how to
   bring any new changes to the site that I make through remote wp-admin, to the
   local version of my site, if that makes sense?
 * Is it that I need to have two separate databases, with unique WordPress logins
   and unique wp-config.php files, with one pointing to the live site, and the other
   to the localhost? At the moment using the WP dashboard will update content on
   either one or the other, so my local site is left lagging behind my live one.
 * Thanks again, I can now at least share what I have so far on my public URL with
   others, as its links no longer lead to pages with errors 🙂
 * Bec
 *   Forum: [Localhost Installs](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/localhost-installs/)
   
   In reply to: [Localhost to Public – Do I need two separate databases?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localhost-to-public-do-i-need-two-separate-databases/)
 *  Thread Starter [beccenstein](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beccenstein/)
 * (@beccenstein)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localhost-to-public-do-i-need-two-separate-databases/#post-7347958)
 * Update: I went back to the URLs and changed them both to
 * define(‘WP_HOME’,’[http://www.example.net&#8217](http://www.example.net&#8217););
   
   define(‘WP_SITEURL’,’[http://www.example.net&#8217](http://www.example.net&#8217););
 * Permalinks now look as though they are assigned to the public address, but display
   a 500 Internal Server Error, instead of trying to access a localhost address.

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