I moved my live Wordpress site from my hosting provider to localhost but when I go to load the website it takes me to the wordpress installation page. When I try to go to wordpress install I am hit with an 403 Forbidden message.
I moved wordpress by downloading the FTP files.
I am running XAMPP on windows. I have edited the wp_options database table and changed references from the live site to localhost. I have also updated wp_config.php.
very easy to move wordpress from one server to another
Install clean wordpress on your new destination (make sure to set-up the databse also)
Copy the wp-content folder from your source, and replace the wp-content folder of your destination
Export the database of your source, drop all the tables in your destination, and import that database from your source to your destination.
update site_url and home_url inside wp_options table in your destination
DONE!
in case you want to update all URLs from your source to the URLs of your destination.
You can simply edit the sql file before importing to your destination database using something like notepad++ and find replace
e.g.
find yoursource.com
replace all with yourdestination.com
or you can use update url plugin,
The easiest way is to install the "Duplicator" plugin in your working Wordpress installation. From within that you can easily create a ZIP package and an installer file, copy that to any other server (including localhost) and install your Worpress site there after you filled in the settings of your local database.
Hi You need to change wp_options table in your database, In wp_options siteurl and home option value to your localhost url.
also check wp_config.php file if it contain your live url. After changing those url run your site on localhost, it will fix your problem, if still you get 403 error then check file permission.
You have to migrate your database from your local server to Live server.
Can also Edit wp-config.php File.
define( 'WP_HOME', 'http://yourWebsitleURL.com' );
define( 'WP_SITEURL', 'http://yourWebsitleURL.com' );
You can do one more thing, Update your website URL in wp_options Table.
The last thing we need to do is verify the changes. Open the wp_options table and check the option_value of siteurl and home. You should see your new URL.
Also can take backup using WP-All in One
Install wp-AllInOne
Create Backup and download it
Install a clear Wordpress on your cpanel web url (make sure your php and Wordpress versions are same)
install wp-AllInOne Plugin on your clear new wordpress
Import your Backup
your Website will be ready no need to do any king of configuration.
Easy way to migrate WordPress hosting to localhost.
You can install the "All-in-One WP Migration" plugin on your website and export the data then you can install WordPress on your localhost and also install the "All-in-One WP Migration" plugin then import the export file.
Please take backup of the live Wordpress website using duplicator plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/
After backup you can download installer.php & .zip file
Then new Wordpress installation in localhost after new installation is done then simply go to localhost wp-config.php file and copy hostname, database name, username name, password and save in safe place then put the duplicator plugin backup file on that localhost wordpess installation directory and remove the localhost new wordpress installation files not duplicator plugin backup files
open localhost/directoryname/installer.php further implemention of the backup please check the plugin guidence https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/
You have two main options:
Use a duplicator plugin, and install it on both servers. Then export the data and reupload it. https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/
If not, make a copy of your WordPress directory, and database for WordPress. Then reupload them both to localhost.
Hope it helps!
Check $table_prefix value in your wp-config.php file. You are seeing installing page most likely because of this.
Let's say your production has a table prefix of $table_prefix = 'asdf_'; and your local has $table_prefix = 'wp_'; Then you will see the WordPress installation page even if you did the rest correctly.
I have been using wp all in one migrate to import my staging site into my local environment(XAMPP). after importing the staging, there was an issue that cause me to delete the local files for the particular site all together and start over. However now after creating a new wordpress site in my local environment and dowloading the plugin again, the plugin gives an error saying to Please make sure that storage directory C:\xampp\htdocs\website-name\wp-content\plugins\all-in-one-wp-migration\storage has read and write permissions.
I've tried the following with no success:
followed the instruction suggested by the plugin which were to
change the permissions of the file by right clicking into
"properties"... all of the users have full control.
used ls -al in git bash to confirm that my username shows as the owner of all the files.
changed the user and group name from 'daemon' to my username in httpd.conf
added define('FS_METHOD', 'direct'); to wp-config.php
deleted and reinstalled the plugin as well as the entire database.
so far I keep getting the same error. I also checked other local wordpress sites I have and they all seem to have the same issue now. Any suggestions?
I got this problem on my WordPress site. When I delete the page and also delete it in the trash permanently it automatically restored even though I didn't restore the page. Can someone help me with this?
hope your having a great day ,It seems your issues is a little unclear , Are you able to download your theme and debug it into a local development environment , instead of your live website , you can even try it on a free web-hosting service that offers you a subdomain so you don't break your website
Setting up a local development environment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru3KjHP5vxw
Required
1.Xammp🔗LINK : https://www.apachefriends.org/index.html
2.Wordpress 🔗LINK : https://wordpress.org/download/
Steps:
Download Xampp and wordpress
Install Xampp to C:\
Extract WordPress archive
Copy word press extracted folder to C:\xampp\htdocs
Go to localhost on browser
Click on phpmyAdmin on top right
Choose user authentication from the top tab
Select a new user
Make sure you select create a new database with this username
go to localhost/word press
Install db and start installing word press
create new credentials for word press admin panel
finish installation and login.
Possible fixes for your website
updating WordPress to latest version https://wordpress.org/download/
Plugin conflict with WordPress like a page builder for example Element or
try disabling each plugin one by one to understand which one causes the error by adding a new page if any of those plugins break the page editor
try to reinstall it but backup first .
Have successfully moved my WordPress website from my localhost to a live server but the images are not showing and some pages as well. Some pages are still showing the localhost URL while another error message am getting is "That page can't be found".
I already changed my siteurl and Home column in my database table (wp_option) to the live server, but still the images are not showing yet. What should I do?
You have to replace all localhost url in your database.
You should follow the steps below to move your database from local to live server:
Export your database to sql file
Use notepad++ open that sql file
Replace all localhost url to your live domain and save the file
Import the saved file to the live database
Note: make sure that you uploaded all the images to the live server
I would definitely recommend to use an automated plugin for the task. The one I use is Duplicator, by LifeInTheGrid. It is free and works perfectly to move a site from development to production and viceversa. Here is the link to it:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/
I use it with all my sites and so far it has worked flawlessly.
I finally discovered a wonderful plugin that did it all.
The plugin is called Velvet Blues Update URLs .
Just Download the package. Extract it to the "plugins" folder of your WordPress directory. In the Admin Panel, go to "Plugins" and activate it.
Go to Tools -> Update URLs to use it and then tick all the boxes to replace the old URLs with the new URLs.
I have just moved my testing development subdirectory worpdress installation to my root folder using the WP-Clone plugin.
The problem now is my main site (previously mysite.com ) shows (mysite.com/site) now. and the subdirectory is shwoing in all my links
I have tried going to settings and removed the /site from wordpress URL and Site address URL.
But it broke my site and disabled me from accessing my wp-login.php .
I fixed it by editing my wp-config.php and adding :
define('WP_HOME','https://mysite.com/site');
define('WP_SITEURL','https://mysite.com/site');
and now my website works perfectly. But it still shows mysite.com/site and i am unable to edit my URL and Siteaddress from my wp dashboard anymore.
How do I Remove my website subdirectory (/site) and still have it work and not break my site's themes and all? How do I go about this? Really really appreciate any help! Thanks!
By adding those constants to wp-config.php you're overruling any setting in the database. That's why you can't edit them in the admin panel.
So the first step is to change those constants to:
define('WP_HOME','https://domain.com');
define('WP_SITEURL','https://domain.com');
Then delete your htaccess file. (.htaccess in your root folder).
Once you've done this navigate to http://domain.com/wp-login.php
Login to your site and go to Settings -> Permalinks. Hit save which will regenerate your htaccess file.
Finally you'll need to update existing links. I'd suggest installing a plugin called 'Velvet Blues Update URLs'.