I was hosting two of my personal sites/blogs with HostGator for over 10 months. I didn't update my sites that often as I don't get enough time to write content for my sites .So, I decided to host my site through raspberry-pi or pc.
I downloaded full backup and home directory backup. Also, I installed WordPress locally. Now, I want to use my local WordPress setup to launch my sites by using files that I downloaded from HostGator cPanel but I dont know how to do that. Initially I spent sometime to get the solution from google as well as YouTube but directions were not clear. I tried to do it by myself but I was not successful.
Is there solution to this issue? Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you
I would recommend to use a plugin for this.
Try "Duplicator" for example. It creates a backup for you and an installer file.
After downloading these files, you place them in your root directory and navigate to "localhost/installer.php" and everything gets set up as you had.
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I wanted to see what this reason could be. When entering my site: https://boonmodels.com/
It doesn't log in, it just downloads some strange files.
I have not touched anything, will it be a problem of a virus or something similar?
the site is made in wordpress.
I hope someone can help me, thanks!
If your site is suddenly downloading files instead of visiting the page, do not open them.
Are you on shared hosting? Either way, contact your hosting provider immediately. Hopefully they have a backup to a time before it was doing this and can restore. They might also be able to confirm what the contents of the files would be without you endangering your own computer.
I used to run into this problem with shared hosting on GoDaddy. I now no longer recommend Wordpress unless you are on your own Virtual Private Server or with a managed hosting service like WPEngine.
I have installed WordPress using Bitnami locally, I've developed a website through that.
Now I want to develop second WordPress website (locally). So, do I need to install second Bitnami WordPress or what should I do now ?
All I want is to develop new WordPress website.
I'm searching for this for about 2 days, but I am not finding relevant information, may be the words are not correct for what I want to do, please help me
I know the method of installing XAMPP and extracting wordpress files in htdocs, but since there is some problem in that , that is why I want to go with Bitnami installation.
Here is my Bitnami Folder.
Bitnami Folder contain another folder, which then contain the following stuff.
When I type localhost/wordpress then it loads my site locally, although I don't have any wordpress folder that is inside Bitnami.
Thank you every respected out there.
Hi there are 2 different ways of having more than one site locally, below is the easier way, it only takes 2-3 mins to set up. The other one, is to build up a second website under the same wordpress folder as your first website. I used both before, but now I recommend the first one, it saves time and runs faster.
Do you have the /htdocs file folder locally? like this?
And you have a wordpress.zip file some where right?
Now you can directly unzip this wordpress.zip file into htdocs folder,like this,
After you rename the wordpress folder, to whatever it needs to be,
visit: localhost/thisRenamedFolder from your browswer as you did with the other site and complete the installation
Is this the answer you are looking for?
I am looking to move my localhost site (WAMP) into my Wordpress account. I have read several articles on how to do it, but with no luck. They all seem to require a web server... Can someone recommend a free one? With instructions on how to upload it online? Thank you!!
finally found a method after much googling...
i ended up choosing x10hosting for web hosting, and i followed this tutorial to install wp plugin and upload files:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86y591DokKw
you'll find all your pages, menus, etc missing/incorrect.
so you'll also need to go log onto your localhost wp and export the xml files by:
tools --> export.
then import that file onto x10hosting via wordpress dashboard.
any plugins installed locally will need to be installed again.
hope that helps if anyone else is looking!
I just recently started by creating a EC2 instance on AWS. I used the Amazon Linux package. I changed the PHP settings to include the ability to upload files larger than 200MB. Got phpinfo.php working. Installed phpMyAdmin. Everything looked good.
Next, I installed Wordpress. It worked great. Then I tried installing a theme. Worked great. Then I started installing some plugins for that theme. Something made the site crash. I tried a few things, but since I couldn't go to the sites Wordpress Admin panel, it seemed hopeless. So I decided to start from scratch. I deleted the html directory (including wp-content) and dropped all the wordpress tables. I moved a fresh copy of Wordpress into the html directory, reconfigured the config.php file, and it recreated the Wordpress tables in the database. Seems to work great. When I try to upload a theme, it says:
Connection Information
To perform the requested action, WordPress needs to access your web server. Please enter your FTP credentials to proceed. If you do not remember your credentials, you should contact your web host.
I noticed that wp-content didn't have a uploads directory, so I created one. That seemed to let me upload the theme, but it showed up as a media file. I moved it to the theme directory and that worked. But when I tried to upload a plugin, I got the same message as a above.
What happened when I deleted everything? Or rather, where was information stored that when I reinstalled Wordpress, it didn't create a uploads directory? I am fine with reinstalling Wordpress from scratch, but I don't want to reinstall the whole LAMP stack or redo the AWS instance. Any thoughts?
The issue is that your web server doesn't have the proper permissions to write to your content directory.
The WordPress Codex has some good info for proper file and directory permissions. Ideally, all files should have 644 permissions, and all directories should be 755 (no higher).
If you're still running into issues adding plugins and updating WordPress, you should heed the advice of the following (so that you don't have to enter FTP details into WordPress each time):
Any file that needs write access from WordPress should be writable by the web server. If your hosting set up requires it, that may mean those files need to be group-owned by the user account used by the web server process.
I want to take the files from an active online WordPress instance and develop on my local machine. I will only be doing front end development so I don't need any database other than my local dev environments which is a MAMP stack.
What folders and files do I need to pull from the online version to add to the local version?
An obvious example would be the 'Themes" folder , but what else? What is the full list? Is there a list of these items online?
Thank you.
You may have a look into wordpress plugin Duplicator meant for taking backups or transferring entire website from one location to another.
http://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/
The plugin page also contain short tutorial on what it is capable of..
You just need to get a theme on which you are going to work from the themes folder.
On your local machine have the same wordpress version installed as on live and install all the plugins that you have on live wordpress.
In this way you`ll only need the theme folder and nothing else for development.