LyleChamney

Hi Tony … Happy New Year! 🙂

1. yep, if you get the welcome screen, XAMPP is installed and running 🙂

2. you are entering the incorrect URL; it should be:

http://localhost/wordpress-trunk

That will get the install going 🙂

One does not use the physical path to the files for a local server.

This is the way I do this sort of move; not sure why you wanted to transfer the domain though other than to consolidate accounts.

I did this with 5 domains/sites last weekend.

– at domain registrar (e.g. namecheap), change nameservers to the new host (e.g. rackspace)
– export database from current host and download
– ZIP and download site files from current host
– create new database on new host and import exported db
– upload and unZIP files to new host
– edit wp-config.php on new host with new db credentials
– done … 5 minutes tops 🙂

May have to wait a bit for the DNS to change.

Where are you running this from? A local server? If so, which one? Or are you setting up PHP and MySQL on their own? The more info the better 🙂

Difficult to say as I have not used that particular theme nor have any idea how you have been customizing it 🙂

My ‘guess’ is that it is in the theme’s implementation.

You will more than likely get a better response from the theme’s support page here:

https://wordpress.org/support/theme/make

My brain is not all that far behind you 😉

– in C:\xampp , double click xampp-control.exe to open the XAMPP Control Panel
– in the XAMPP Control Panel under Actions, click ‘Start’ for both Apache and MySQL
– when both are running, their backgrounds should be ‘green’ (Module column)

As mentioned earlier, when NOT running as a service, one will have to do this whenever you have restarted your computer or have stopped the servers from the control panel.

Note that to access phpMyAdmin (the database tool), click on the ‘Admin’ button in the MySQL row.

You could use one of the many backup/move plugins, but I prefer to do this manually. The main benefit as I see it is that one gets to learn how all this works 🙂 Besides, once you have done it a couple times, it takes less than 5 minutes.

Web Server

– export database
– zip and download all files and folder of the site

XAMPP

Database

– using phpMyAdmin, create a new, empty database (no spaces in the name and it doesn’t need to match the web server one)
– import the exported database into this new database
– edit the siteurl and home fields in the wp_options table with the location of the local site
– e.g. if you place the site files in a folder named wordpress then you would need http://localhost/wordpress

Local Site

– create a folder within C:\xampp\htdocs (e.g. wordpress) and unzip the downloaded site files there; the path would be C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress for this example
– edit the wp-config.php file that is now in this location with the following:
NOTE – use a PLAIN TEXT EDITOR, such as NotePad

— database name: whatever you named it
— database user: root <this is the default XAMPP DATABASE user name>
— database password: <empty> do not enter ANYTHING here <this is the default XAMPP DATABASE USER password>
— host: localhost

You should now be able to log into the WP Dashboard

– install and run this plugin to update the URLs/links

http://wordpress.org/plugins/velvet-blues-update-urls/

— select all options EXCEPT the last one (GUID)

Once that is done, go to:

Settings > Permalinks and Save.

OK, now I’m confused 🙂 … doesn’t take much … LOL!

Ultimately, when all is said and done, how many sites do you want and what are their top level domains (TLDs)?

You keep adding the /wp after a TLD … is this what you want? Is there another site at the TLD and the /wp is just a blog using WP?