LyleChamney

Steps 1, 2 and 3 you have done from within the WP Dashboard while logged in.

Steps 4 and 5 are accomplished either from your hosting control panel’s file manager or via an FTP program such as FileZilla that connects to your hosting account file system.

Steps 6 and 7 are again done from the WP Dashboard.

Personally, I do not worry about the local URL as it will be changed after moving the site to the remote server which will have the proper top level domain.

I use two tools to accomplish this after the move:

1. Velvet Blues Update URLs

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.

2. Search and Replace For WordPress Databases
https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/

Perform the same Permalinks Save after running this script.
Note that this script will handle links stored as serialized strings within the database.

Alternatively, most site backup/move plugins will update the links during their intended use. I don’t use them as I like to move my sites manually 🙂

By default, WP cannot display a PDF within your page or post. You will have to install and use one of the many plugins available to do so.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=embed+pdf&sort=

I have a backup of my WordPress database, and a copy of all of my files (downloaded via FileZilla) on my desktop.

Great! That’s all you need 🙂

– log into cPanel and click MySQL Database Wizard
– Step 1: create a new database – give it a name, lower case, no spaces
– note that it does NOT have to be the same name as the Windows version; we will fix that in the wp-config.php later
– Step 2: create db users – complete this section, use lower case for name, no spaces and a strong password; again, it does NOT need to match the previous one
– Step 3: add user to the database – click to select the All Privileges at the top and click Next Step
– Step 4: complete task – click Home then select phpMyAdmin
– from the left sidebar in phpMyAdmin, click on the name of the db you just created
– click the Import tab
– click the Choose File button, navigate to your db backup file (should be a .sql file) and select it and Open, then click the Go button
– you should get an Import successfully finished notice; that’s it for the database
– click Home and then File Manager
– as you mention that your install is “completely trashed”, this is what I would do:
– open your local computer’s file manager (you didn’t say if you are on Mac or Win) so that you can see all the folders and files that you downloaded in FZ; there should be 3 folders and 16 files
– when you open File Manager from your cPanel, you should be by default in your public_html location (your web host root)
– delete the folders and files you see there as they match the ones in your FZ download
– once that is done, use FZ to upload your downloaded files to this location
– when that has completed, from within your cPanel File Manger, select the wp-config.php file and choose Edit from the menu
– carefully edit the DB_NAME, DB_USER and DB_PASSWORD with the values you entered during the Database Wizard, being careful not to disturb or change the single quotes; make sure there are no spaces; then Save Changes

That’s it, you should be good to go as your URLs haven’t changed. You don’t have to do anything with pointing a domain to a location on a new account when it’s at the same provider, at least not at GD; I have done this with them often.

It may seem a bit involved for the first time, but the whole process should take less that 5 minutes, depending upon your upload speed for the site files 🙂

Good to hear! 🙂

I tried with a brand new XAMPP install and had the same as you did using Chrome. Tried in Firefox and it worked! Go figure 🙂

That one was better 🙂 Everything you do in the vid is correct.

However, try actually typing in the URL of the local site instead of selecting it from the browser history as you do in the screencast. You may have to do a couple of hard refreshes (Ctrl + F5). The database connection works because you would not get to the Run the Install screen and subsequent ones if it was not correct/working.

Try actually typing these, given the last screencast:

http://localhost/wordpress

http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin

@radices – the default database user for both XAMPP and WAMPServer have no password so you must make sure the password field is empty 🙂 Also, you will not get to the Site setup screen if the db connection didn’t work, as in the first attempt.

@rawadmerhi – which local server are you using? XAMPP, WAMPServer, other?

You were clicking around a bit fast at the end but I have seen this behavior before. Have you tried going to the URL where the site was installed? e.g. http://localhost/name-of-folder-where-WP-install-is