LyleChamney

Good to hear that you got it sorted 🙂

Without knowing the tutorial you followed and the process used, perhaps try this:

Local Site:

– export the database
– ZIP the contents of the site

Live Site:
– use phpMyAdmin (or your hosting account’s database tool) to create a new, empty database (no spaces in the name)
– import the exported local database .sql file
– edit the siteurl and home fields in the wp_options table with the new live site URL:

— http://www.my_domain.com

– upload the ZIP file and unZIP (or copy the local site files via FTP) to the desired location on the hosting account (generally the root of the account, public_html)
– edit the wp-config.php file there with the live database connection credentials (use the edit file option of your hosting account’s file manager to do so)
– log into the live site Dashboard:

http://www.my_domain.com/wp-admin

– install and run this plugin:

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

— select all options EXCEPT the last one (GUID)

– go to Settings > Permalinks and just re-save

– if broken links remain, then upload this script to the root of your hosting account and run it:

https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/

— this script updates the URLs that are stored in the database as serialized strings, which the plugin mentioned above does not handle

– go to Settings > Permalinks and just re-save if you had to run this script and then delete it from your hosting account

Done 🙂

I know it seems like a lot of steps/work, but it is quite straight forward and provides one with a better understanding (hopefully) of what is going on and why.
Yes, there are plugins that do this, such as Duplicator and BackupBuddy, but again, one does not get a gist of what’s happening. And if something goes pear-shaped using them, then it’s off to the plugin’s support forum to find out what went wrong.

Using this method, which I always use, I can get a local site to live in under 5 minutes 🙂

@auth1299 –

I would suggest that your sites/servers have other issues as I have successfully updated 25 sites across three hosting accounts; all headers are OK 200 so I don’t see it being a WP matter.

This is a topic I am not familiar with so would not know what to try next; perhaps others will chime in.

placed my Database name, username, used localhost as my DB hostname etc. into the wp-config.php then uploaded the files to my directory.

Another potential issue when editing the file locally is if you did so on a Mac using Text Edit as by default, it uses curly quotes instead of plain old ones. That is, of course, if you edited the quotes. You shouldn’t need to, but sometimes one deletes it by mistake and then it gets replaced with the “wrong kind”. And, as catacaustic says, that’s enough to stop it working.

I always use the file editor of the file manager of the hosting control panel; never an issue that way.