¿Quieres un espacio seguro para experimentar con tu sitio web WordPress sin miedo a romper algo en tu sitio en vivo?
Trasladar su sitio WordPress a un servidor local en su ordenador es la solución perfecta, en nuestra opinión, especialmente para desarrolladores, diseñadores o principiantes en WordPress.
Instalar WordPress en tu ordenador (servidor local) te permite aprender WordPress fácilmente y probar cosas. Cuando trasladas un sitio WordPress activo a un servidor local, te permite experimentar con los mismos datos que tu sitio activo.
En este artículo, le mostraremos cómo trasladar fácilmente un sitio WordPress activo a un servidor local.
¿Por qué y quién querría trasladar un sitio WordPress activo a un servidor local?
Si ha estado utilizando un sitio web WordPress durante algún tiempo, es posible que desee probar nuevos temas o un plugin. Sin embargo, hacer esto en un sitio web en vivo puede resultar en una mala experiencia de usuario para sus usuarios.
Para evitarlo, muchos usuarios crean una copia de su sitio web WordPress en un servidor local para probar nuevos temas, plugins o realizar pruebas de desarrollo.
Esto le permite configurar su tema con todo su contenido y probar todas las funciones sin preocuparse de romper su sitio. Muchos usuarios copian su sitio en un servidor local para practicar sus conocimientos de WordPress y codificación con datos reales del sitio.
Aunque puede realizar todas las pruebas con contenido ficticio en WordPress, los datos del sitio real le ofrecen una mejor representación visual de cómo aparecerán estos cambios en su sitio real.
Preparativos para trasladar un sitio local a un servidor local
En primer lugar, debes asegurarte de realizar siempre copias de seguridad de tu sitio web WordPress. Hay varios plugins de copia de seguridad de WordPress que puedes utilizar.
En segundo lugar, necesitas instalar un entorno de servidor local en tu ordenador. Puedes usar WAMP para Windows, y MAMP para Mac. Una vez que hayas configurado el entorno, necesitas crear una nueva base de datos usando phpMyAdmin.
Simplemente visite la siguiente URL en su navegador para iniciar phpMyAdmin.
http://localhost/phpmyadmin/
http://localhost:8080/phpmyadmin/
Desde aquí tienes que hacer clic en la pestaña “Bases de datos” y crear una nueva base de datos. Necesitarás esta base de datos más tarde para descomprimir los datos de tu sitio en vivo.
Ya está listo para mover su sitio WordPress activo al servidor local.
Método 1. Trasladar un sitio WordPress activo a un servidor local mediante un plugin
Este método es más sencillo y recomendable para todos los usuarios.
Lo primero que debe hacer es instalar y activar el plugin Duplicator. Para más detalles, consulta nuestra guía paso a paso sobre cómo instalar un plugin de WordPress.
Duplicator le permite crear fácilmente un paquete duplicado de todo su sitio web. Se puede utilizar para mover su sitio de WordPress a una nueva ubicación, y también se puede utilizar como un plugin de copia de seguridad.
Nota: Existe una versión gratuita de Duplicator con la que puede empezar. Sin embargo, Duplicator Pro viene con copias de seguridad ilimitadas y funciones más avanzadas.
Tras la activación, vaya a Duplicator Pro ” Copias de seguridad desde la barra lateral de administración de WordPress. Para crear un nuevo paquete, haga clic en el botón “Añadir nuevo”.
Duplicator iniciará el asistente de copia de seguridad.
En primer lugar, debe introducir un nombre para su paquete de copia de seguridad. También puede utilizar las etiquetas dinámicas para crear automáticamente un formato de nombre como la fecha y el título de su sitio.
A continuación, despliega la sección “Almacenamiento” y elige una ubicación de almacenamiento.
Para este tutorial, utilizaremos la ubicación predeterminada. Si lo deseas, puedes hacer clic en el enlace “Añadir almacenamiento” para añadir una nueva ubicación, como Dropbox o Google Drive.
Pulse el botón “Siguiente” para continuar.
El plugin escaneará su sitio web y realizará algunas comprobaciones. A continuación, le mostrará un resumen de esas comprobaciones.
Si todo parece correcto, haz clic en el botón“Crear copia de seguridad” para continuar.
Duplicator creará ahora el paquete de su sitio web.
Una vez que haya terminado, verá un archivo zip que contiene todos los datos de su sitio web, y un archivo de instalación. Debes descargar ambos archivos en tu ordenador.
Ya está listo para desempaquetar e instalar estos archivos en su servidor local.
En primer lugar, debe crear una nueva carpeta en la carpeta raíz de su servidor local. Esta es la carpeta donde su servidor local almacena todos los sitios web.
Por ejemplo, si estás usando MAMP, entonces será la carpeta /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/. Alternativamente, si está utilizando WAMP, entonces sería la carpeta C:\wamp\www\.
Dentro de esta carpeta, puede crear nuevas carpetas para cada nuevo sitio web que desee importar o crear en su servidor local.
A continuación, abra la carpeta que creó para su sitio web local y copie y pegue tanto el archivo zip como el script de instalación que descargó anteriormente.
Para ejecutar la instalación, debe abrir el script installer.php en su navegador web.
Por ejemplo, si ha pegado ambos archivos en la carpeta /mylocalsite/, accederá a ellos en su navegador visitando http://localhost/mylocalsite/installer.php.
Ahora verá el script de instalación de Duplicator así:
Pulse el botón “Siguiente” para continuar.
Duplicator descomprimirá el archivo zip y le pedirá que introduzca la información de la base de datos de su sitio local. Esta es la base de datos que creó anteriormente.
El nombre del servidor es casi siempre localhost y el nombre de usuario es root. En la mayoría de los casos, la instalación de su servidor local no tiene una contraseña establecida para root, por lo que puede dejarla en blanco.
En la parte inferior de la página, verás un botón “Probar base de datos” que puedes utilizar para asegurarte de que la información de tu base de datos es correcta.
Si todo parece correcto, haz clic en el botón “Siguiente” para continuar.
Duplicator importará su base de datos de WordPress. A continuación, le pedirá que vuelva a comprobar la información del nuevo sitio web que ha detectado automáticamente.
Pulse el botón “Siguiente” para continuar.
Duplicator finalizará la configuración y le mostrará un botón para iniciar sesión en su sitio local. Utilizará el mismo nombre de usuario y contraseña de WordPress que utiliza en su sitio activo.
Eso es todo, usted ha movido con éxito su sitio en vivo al servidor local.
Método 2. Trasladar manualmente un sitio WordPress activo a un servidor local
En caso de que el plugin no funcione para usted, siempre puede mover manualmente su sitio en vivo a un servidor local. Lo primero que necesitas es hacer una copia de seguridad manual de tu sitio web desde tu cuenta de alojamiento de WordPress.
Paso 1. Exporte la base de datos de WordPress de su sitio activo
Para exportar la base de datos de WordPress de su sitio web, debe acceder a su panel de control cPanel y hacer clic en phpMyAdmin.
Nota: Estamos mostrando capturas de pantalla del panel de control de Bluehost.
Dentro de phpMyAdmin, debe seleccionar la base de datos que desea exportar y luego hacer clic en la pestaña de exportación en la parte superior.
phpMyAdmin le pedirá que elija un método de exportación rápido o personalizado. Recomendamos utilizar el método personalizado y elegir zip como método de compresión.
A veces los plugins de WordPress pueden crear sus propias tablas dentro de su base de datos de WordPress. Si ya no utilizas ese plugin, el método personalizado te permite excluir esas tablas.
Deje el resto de las opciones como están y haga clic en el botón “Ir” para descargar la copia de seguridad de su base de datos en formato zip.
phpMyAdmin descargará ahora su archivo de base de datos. Para más detalles, consulte nuestro tutorial sobre cómo hacer una copia de seguridad manual de la base de datos de WordPress.
Paso 2. Descargue todos los archivos de WordPress
El siguiente paso es descargar los archivos de WordPress. Para ello, debe conectarse a su sitio de WordPress mediante un cliente FTP.
Una vez conectado, selecciona todos tus archivos de WordPress y descárgalos a tu ordenador.
Paso 3. Importe los archivos y la base de datos de WordPress al servidor local
Tras descargar los archivos de WordPress, deberá crear una carpeta en su servidor local en la que desee importar el sitio local.
Si usted está usando WAMP entonces usted querría crear una carpeta dentro de C:\wamp\www\ carpeta para su sitio local. Los usuarios de MAMP deberán crear una carpeta en /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/.
Después de eso, simplemente copie y pegue sus archivos de WordPress en la nueva carpeta.
A continuación, debe importar su base de datos de WordPress. Simplemente abre phpMyAdmin en tu servidor local visitando la siguiente URL:
http://localhost/phpmyadmin/
Como ya ha creado la base de datos anteriormente, ahora tiene que seleccionarla y, a continuación, hacer clic en la pestaña “Importar” de la parte superior.
Haga clic en el botón “Seleccionar archivo” para seleccionar y cargar el archivo de exportación de la base de datos que descargó en el primer paso. A continuación, haz clic en el botón “Ir” situado en la parte inferior de la página.
phpMyAdmin descomprimirá e importará su base de datos de WordPress.
Ahora que la base de datos está configurada, debe actualizar las URL de la base de datos de WordPress que hacen referencia al sitio activo.
Puede hacerlo ejecutando una consulta SQL en phpMyAdmin. Asegúrese de que ha seleccionado la base de datos de su sitio local y, a continuación, haga clic en SQL.
En la pantalla SQL de phpMyAdmin copie y pegue este código, asegúrese de reemplazar example.com con la URL de su sitio en vivo y http://localhost/mylocalsite con la URL del servidor local de su sitio.
UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = replace(option_value, 'https://www.example.com', 'http://localhost/mylocalsite') WHERE option_name = 'home' OR option_name = 'siteurl'; UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = replace(post_content, 'https://www.example.com', 'http://localhost/mylocalsite'); UPDATE wp_postmeta SET meta_value = replace(meta_value,'https://www.example.com','http://localhost/mylocalsite');
Esta consulta reemplazará las referencias a la URL de su sitio en vivo de la base de datos y la sustituirá por la URL localhost.
Paso 4. Actualizar el archivo wp-config.php
El último paso es actualizar el archivo wp-config.php de su sitio local. Este archivo contiene la configuración de WordPress, incluida la forma de conectarse a la base de datos de WordPress.
Simplemente vaya a la carpeta donde instaló WordPress en su servidor local y abra el archivo wp-config.php en un editor de texto como el Bloc de notas.
Sustituya el nombre de la base de datos por el que creó en phpMyAdmin en su localhost.
Después de eso, sustituya el nombre de usuario de la base de datos por su nombre de usuario MySQL local, normalmente es root. Si ha establecido una contraseña para el usuario root de MySQL en su localhost, introduzca esa contraseña. De lo contrario, déjela vacía y guarde los cambios.
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', 'database_name_here');
/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'username_here');
/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'password_here');
Ahora puede visitar su sitio local en una ventana del navegador introduciendo la URL de la siguiente manera:
http://localhost/mylocalsite/
Sustituya ‘mylocalsite’ por el nombre de la carpeta donde ha copiado los archivos de WordPress.
Eso es todo, su sitio WordPress en vivo está ahora copiado en su servidor local.
Esperamos que este artículo te haya ayudado a aprender cómo mover fácilmente un sitio WordPress activo a un servidor local. También puedes consultar nuestra guía sobre cómo crear fácilmente un sitio de pruebas para WordPress o cómo mover un sitio WordPress de un servidor local a un sitio activo.
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Jakob Uzioa
So i followed the instructions to manually move the site to the letter using wampserver but when i navigate to the file path localhost/mysite and hit enter, the site does not open but instead only a file downloads which is called. ” download” which is a php file:
/**
* Front to the WordPress application. This file doesn’t do anything, but loads
* wp-blog-header.php which does and tells WordPress to load the theme.
*
* @package WordPress
*/
/**
* Tells WordPress to load the WordPress theme and output it.
what could be the problem ?
WPBeginner Support
Please ensure you go through the installer.php when first installing the site and ensure WAMP is running as common possible reasons for that issue.
Administrador
Tye
Thanks for the tutorial, its more clear than a lot of the ones I found online, I have a problem though, migration all fine, the site is running but I cannot login with the usernames I had on the live site, cannot access the admin dashboard to create new usernames either. Help please?
WPBeginner Support
If your users are not working then you could manually add a user following the steps in our article below. You would be able to use your file manager instead of FTP for a local installation.
https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-add-an-admin-user-in-wordpress-using-ftp/
Administrador
Mark
Thank you for this tutorial, you run a very helpful website. It took me a long time to run through this, as there are alot of steps and I find a lot of ways to go wrong! I ended up using the file names that you used in your examples, to reduce complication. And success! Much appreciated.
WPBeginner Support
Glad our guide could help!
Administrador
Lina
Thanks for the great tutorial! However, it only works for my home page. When I try to open a subpage, I see this error message: “The requested URL was not found on this server.” Can you help me here?
Best regards,
Lina
WPBeginner Support
It would depend on the method you used but we would recommend ensuring you used the SQL update as that should fix your URLs in your database. You may also want to ensure the links you are using in your menu are not custom URLs as that can be a common reason for that issue as well.
Administrador
Awais
is the above code is right ?
I copy and paste in SQL but every time this massage comes,
0 rows affected. (Query took 0.0046 seconds.)
WPBeginner Support
The code should work but especially if you’ve already run it once, there will be no change in your site and it will come back with 0 affected.
Administrador
Deb
Hi, thanks for your fab instructions. I used the Duplicator method and everything works…except when viewing the site my images/thumbnails don’t show up (broken image), until I click on them. Then they show in their own window, as expected.
They do show properly in the wp dashboard editor.
Cheers, Deb
WPBeginner Support
There are a few possible reasons but for a starting point you could try regenerating the thumbnails following our guide below as the most common solution for that error:
https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails-new-image-sizes-wordpress/
Administrador
Aamir Khan
I have created a backup of my website manually and setup on local machine and run the above quires, but my website is redirecting to online version.
WPBeginner Support
It seems like you may have not updated the URL, you can do so using step 3 of the manual method of this article.
Administrador
George
Thank you so much for this clear and useful article. I was able to follow it and migrate my WP site in less than 20 minutes – and I’m no expert. You’ve saved me a lot of pain – thank you.
WPBeginner Support
Glad our guide was helpful
Administrador
Barry
Doesn’t work for me. I create the package, but it installs the basic Wordpress files. So when I navigate to the folder it asks me to setup wordpress
WPBeginner Support
For the most common reason, you would want to ensure you are properly connected to the database, if you are not then it would show the option for creating a new site instead of showing the correct site.
Administrador
Daniel
Nooo, its not working for me. pefrectly written tutorial and easy to follow (apart from it says hhttpps in the 3rd query)
i get this in my browser:
This site can’t be reachedlocalhost refused to connect.
Try:
Checking the connection
Checking the proxy and the firewall
ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED
WPBeginner Support
Thanks for pointing out that typo, it should be fixed. For that error, you would want to ensure you updated your URL in step 3 correctly for the most common reason for that issue.
Administrador
McKenzie
Thanks for your tutorial.
The front page is partially working but every other page is not working at all. Furthermore, it seems that front page is loading All the pages. What could be wrong?
WPBeginner Support
We would recommend starting by going through our troubleshooting guide below:
https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/beginners-guide-to-troubleshooting-wordpress-errors-step-by-step/
Administrador
Collins
Hi, Thank you for this super useful article.
I don’t know why mine doesn’t just work, I have done the exact same thing and gotten all the correct feedback. Whenever I try to open the home page localhost/site/ I get a page that doesn’t exist with the headers and footers and the rest of the pages still point to the live site.
WPBeginner Support
It sounds like you may have not set the URLs correctly. You would likely want to go to method 2 and try the SQL changes to update your URLs.
Administrador
Murat
For those who are getting “wp_options doesn’t exist” error, you may have changed your table_prefix before. Just open the wp_config.php file and check $table_prefix = ‘wp_’
if the value isn’t “wp_” you get that error so when pasting the code edit it accordingly, for instance:
UPDATE xx_options SET option_value………..
WPBeginner Support
Thanks for sharing this should someone be running into that error
Administrador
Chinwe
Thank you so much for this. It worked.
WPBeginner Support
Glad our guide was helpful
Administrador
Ivana Spasic
When I copy and paste the code you provided to phpMyAdmin’s SQL screen, I am getting message: #1146 – Table ‘xyz.wp_options’ doesn’t exist.
How can this be fixed?
WPBeginner Support
You would want to ensure you have the correct database selected for the most common reason for that issue.
Administrador
Jill
I used the Duplicator plugin to set up a copy of a website for a non-profit that I inherited. After reloading it so that all plugins are disabled I finally came to the conclusion that my site is attempting to use https:// to log in to the dashboard. To further confuse me, an empty site that I created on localhost does NOT use https:// for log in to the dashboard. I understand the value of https:// on the live site, but it appears there may be a way to disable it on localhost?
WPBeginner Support
For changing your local site’s URL you can follow our guide below and remove the s:
https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-change-your-wordpress-site-urls-step-by-step
Administrador
Hazel beaver
Is there a plugin that allows you to download a zip file from the live site then upload into a fresh install of wordpress on the local host in a simpler way?
WPBeginner Support
For what it sounds like you’re wanting, the closest would be method 2 of this guide that you would want to take a look at.
Administrador
Daniel
I successfully uploaded to localhost but when i try to use localhost/mysite_location/wp-admin, it redirects to the live site. Not the one on the localhost.
Need help
WPBeginner Support
You would want to go into your site’s database, go to the options table, and change your site url and address to localhost there. For how to modify your database you would want to take a look at our article here: https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/beginners-guide-to-wordpress-database-management-with-phpmyadmin/
Administrador
Bine
Great tutorial. It’s straight forward. Unfortunately I still get redirected to the dashboard as soon as I try to enter my URL. I followed all the steps but something must be missing. Does anyone has an idea what the problem might be? Cheers
WPBeginner Support
You may want to check your options table in your database to be sure that you didn’t set the site’s url to your wp-admin area
Administrador
Niaz Muhammad
Great tutorial thanks for sharing your knowledge
WPBeginner Support
Glad you liked our article
Administrador
alvaro hernandez
it works great!!! i love you!
WPBeginner Support
Glad our guide was helpful
Administrador
T_WA
Hi, thanks for the tutorial, it’s was super helpful!!
However, after following all your steps, I have problems “establishing secure connection” (I guess because of the SSL) and thus it doesn’t work . I even tried and changed a line ‘DB_HOST’ to ‘localhost/localhost:8888’ in the wp-config.php that wasn’t mentioned in the video but didn’t help.
Also, when changing links I tried many variations nothing worked. Has someone faced a similar issue and found a solutions to it?
WPBeginner Support
Did you attempt to clear all of your caching after updating the URLs and is there the option to continue anyway under advanced on that error page?
Administrador
Said
First of all thank you for theses clear explanations that I followed to the letter. The result is that i can access to to my site homepage locally, but links in this homepage do not seem to work because when I click on a link, for example :
localhost.mysite.com/subject.html
it is the following page that is displayed fir all links :
localhost/dashboard
Can you help me to resolve this problem
Thanks in advance
WPBeginner Support
It is likely due to your localhost not accepting pretty permalinks: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-enable-custom-permalinks-in-wordpress-wamp-installation/
Administrador
Ifthikar Hussain
Great Working, am facing a new problem which is i can access the only home page of my word press side. how can i able to access other pages??
WPBeginner Support
It would depend on what error you are running into. To get started you could take a look at the troubleshooting steps in: https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/beginners-guide-to-troubleshooting-wordpress-errors-step-by-step/
Administrador
Hannah
Hi there,
this is really easy to follow and helpful so thank you for that.
I do have a very straightforward question though.
When updating the URLs, you say to replace http:// example.com with your live site, but what if my live site uses https?
WPBeginner Support
If you’re moving your site to a local server we recommend http to avoid local installation issues with not having an SSL, you would change to https if you’re moving the content back to a live site that is using SSL.
Administrador
Philip
Thanks. You wrote this article over 5 years ago, and it’s still good. I managed to set everything up nicely without too much trouble by following your manual instructions. Thanks in particular for the SQL queries.
Philip
WPBeginner Support
Glad our guide could be helpful and still works
Administrador
Basem
After finishing the installation I click Admin Login button. the browser open new window to the installation of wordpress again? and the login page is not there
I checked the folders. all files are copied.
Patrick
Somebody find a fix for the localhost site copy (from live https) administration wanting to use https ?
dowlass
I found your instructions for the manual move of my site (from live server to localhost) worked pretty well. I had to do the permalinks thing – just click on ‘save’ without changing anything – to make links work properly. But otherwise it’s mostly good.
However, I’ve encountered a problem when trying to use new themes. If I add a new theme, then sure the theme installs ok and shows up on the theme page. However, if I try to preview or activate the new theme I just get a totally blank page – even the admin goes blank. The only recourse is to use the browser back button to get back to the admin view where I can delete the theme.
Adding new themes and trying to use them just makes the whole thing fall over!
Any ideas?
(p.s. I’m using a very old version of Wordpress – 2.9.2…!! Which is the reason for wanting to play with it on localhost and work out the best way to upgrade.)
Michael
Tutorial worked pretty good but I had “internal Server Error”. I was downloading an entire network installation. I recopied the wp-config.php file because it had become compressed, all spacing removed. Then replaced the .htaccess with a fresh network version and that “RewriteBase /sitename/” was to the folder of the installation, instead of “RewriteBase /”
Emma
The instructions are clear and straightfoward but unfortunately I am having a total nightmare getting my site to work on the local server. After much trial and I’ve managed to get connect to the database and get some of the site content displayed but links aren’t working (they’re not found, apparently). I’m using MAMP Pro for Windows. Maybe I’ll try XAMMP – or using a Mac – instead. I think alot of the problem is to do with permissions but don’t really know where to start there seem to be so many fixes needed!
WPBeginner Support
Hi Emma,
If you can access the WordPress admin area, then try visiting Settings » Permalinks and then click on the save changes button without changing anything.
Administrador
andy
I solve my problem. If you manually moved wordpress to localhost, and you install w3 total cache in your wordpress, you have to clear the browser cache after change database and wp-config. Or just open your localhost site with different browser.
andy
I have changed wp-config and all database url to localhost, but localhost still redirect me to live site. Why? I cannot install any plugin like duplicator anymore because the site already deleted
Suhana
Hi Andy
Have u tried changing the settings from wp dashboard?
Settings-> General->WordPress Address (URL),Site Address (URL)
Even if it shows the localhost address just save it and check. Hope it helps.
Patrick Pogi
Hi wpbeginner,
Thank you for the tutorial, it helps me a lot. I tried the manual install and but in the end it keeps redirecting me into wordpress installation page. Pls help me, i think i’m almost done. Im using xampp.
Thank you
Jason
Hi,
Im having issues while moving my site, it says LOCALHOST REFUSED TO CONNECT.
But my other local sites are okay.
Im moving it to local because something gone terribly wrong and my page woun’t load on the server’s.
Please any suggestion or advise is appriciated
John
In MAMP Preferences set your Ports to – Apache 80, Nginx 443 and MySQL 3306 and see if that fixes it
Steve
Thanks for this article, I found it very useful but would like to add to it if I may.
I used the manual method successfully with one exception, I could not navigate to any of the pages or posts from my sites menu. I would get a page not found error. I tried everything here, saving the premalinks, but nothing worked. I finally found a post elsewhere that gave me the solution. I had to modify a line in Apache’s httpd.conf file. Open the file and search for ‘AllowOverride’. If it looks like this: ‘AllowOverride None’, change it to ‘AllowOverride All’. I could not get to every page and post and see all the content!. FYI, there are several ‘AllowOverride’ options but the one you are looking for resides on a line by itself. I know this is a WordPress and not an Apache config forum but others may be experiencing the same issue. Hope this helps.
Braun Philippe
Hello Guys,
I’m running into a serious problem. When I click on my local site forler with servers ON on MAMP, it redirects to live site
I’ve done everything this tutorial says, do you know where is the problem ?
Thanks for your help
Sara
Hi
I am also having blank screen like IDRIS D…any suggestion
Idris D
Unfortuntely when I follow this guide, all the links in my local site redirect to the live site.
Any suggestions?
Adrian Stangell
Hi,
after following the instructions for the manual migration I end up with a blank screen when I try to access my website on the localhost. Any ideas?
Joel M
After running the SQL Query to replace links I receive a 1064 error – it seems there is a problem with the code syntax. I’m guessing it’s the (:) in my localhost url : ‘http://localhost:888/localwebsite’ – any ideas how I can work around this? I am using MAMP to run the local server.
Aaron L
try four ‘8’s instead of 3…. localhost:8888/localwebsite
Natalie Bell
Hi there!
I’ve had a successful migration to local site except for my Media Library, every picture is there (lots of files), url’s are correct, but when they don’t show up in the actual blog. When I go to media library it just shows the grid of the pics – all blank, but in description, url etc everything is correct.
Any idea what to do next?
Grant
Try going to your wordpress dashboard, click on the settings menu near the bottom of the sidebar on the left. Then click on the reading menu in the settings submenu, scroll down to the site visibility options and select the ‘allow search engines to index’ option and click save changes at the bottom of the page. See if that works, if not you may have to go to your terminal and manually pull media files from your old site recursively – I had to go this route and can walk you through it if you have any questions. Hope this helps
Carolina
Hi there, Thanks for the post, it’s a huge success for me.
So far, I’ve been able to get to the wp-login page.
and I’m sorry if this is a very silly question. but I’m really newbie with wp
my problem is I can’t login :$
I’ve tried the same logins as the live details = don’t work
as I haven’t set up the dashboard and it’s a local. no email will work.
what should I do?
btw, it’s on a mac.
Many thanks in advanced. Help is appreciated!!
WPBeginner Support
Hi Carolina,
You can change password using PHPMyAdmin.
Administrador
DavidA
Hi again,
My sincere apologies! Posted a comment yesterday (July 24) re difficulty running the Duplicator program from my browser. Went back to check today and realised that I had made a mistake with the placement of the “test-site” folder which contained the installer.php and the zip archive database.
Once I truly placed this folder in the htdocs folder then everything worked fine and I was able to install the website data locally as per your instructions.
Thank you again for all your help!
DavidA
Hi — thank you again for another great article! All very helpful!
I am at the step of opening the Duplicator installer on my local computer. However when I put “http://localhost/test-site/installer.php” into my browser I get a “404 error message” saying “object not found”.
Interestingly if I use “localhost” alone or “localhost/phpmyadmin” they both work. I have moved the “test-site” folder to the “htdocs” folder but still does not work.
Any suggestions??
Thank you
Shun
Thanks for this guide, but what if you’re migrating from a live site with an SSL cert down to a dev site without SSL (https to http?)
I got the front-end working fine, however, HTTPS is still added to my wp-login URL, preventing me from accessing the login page into the admin.
Any additional steps required to eliminating https on a local/dev site’s WP login page?
simone
I am having a similar issue. I migrated a live site to MAMP using WP Migrate DB plug in and FTP. I get the following error – due to the live sites SSL Certificate. It has something to do with the database prefixes not matching. But – I cannot change the prefix on the live site, I called Go Daddy to see if I edited the live site prefix to match my local install database prefix if it would break the site, they said no guarantees, I tried it and it broke the site.
error message I get when entering localhost:8888 url.
An error occurred during a connection to localhost:8888. The client has encountered bad data from the server. Error code: SSL_ERROR_BAD_SERVER
The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.
Thank you in advance for any help!
xasmatic
Well, i used SSL certificate and that is what I did:
At the step where you have to update the URLs inside your WordPress database referencing to your live site, you write the SQL query 4 times to change every URL that may exist.
First time write code like above “http://www.example.com”, then “http://example.com”, after that “https://www.example.com” and finally “https://example.com”.
Make sure: 1) that you write all four times the URL
http://localhost/test-sitewhich will replace those URLs2) change wp_options, wp_posts and wp_postmeta to your right ones (mine for example were cagwp_options etc.)
And a last reminder: Finally (if you’re moving on localhost), on the last step you have also to change the host name to localhost (wp_config.php file)
/** MySQL hostname */
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);
Veer Abheek Singh Manhas
I am tried using this article but I am not sure at which point of time i am supposed to install wordpress. Can anyone help me here?
Thanks
AIAI
you don’t have to reinstall wordpress again. all files from the source wp installation is already backed up.
Alex
I have used these instruction before and they worked fine, however i now have an updated version of mamp and wordpress and i continually get errors. betwen playing around i get the white blank screen or the index.php file. as text.
Both similar problems to users below.
it might be time to update this.
I gave up on moving my site to local and decided to just have a dev url too however, when i run the sql query above i always end up with a token missmatch, despite making all the necessary changes.
Andi
Thank’S a lot for your work.
But it doesn’t work. If I run local installer.php I see blank screen.
Best regards
Andi
mc
hey
I did everything as it is described and when I get to the last phase and put the url: localhost/mysite it automatically downloads a file that has this information:
<?php
/**
* Front to the WordPress application. This file doesn't do anything, but loads
* wp-blog-header.php which does and tells WordPress to load the theme.
*
* @package WordPress
*/
/**
* Tells WordPress to load the WordPress theme and output it.
*
* @var bool
*/
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
/** Loads the WordPress Environment and Template */
require( dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/wp-blog-header.php' );
is it something wrong that i did in the process?