Downloading blog files for local editing

Hi

That can all be done within Dreamweaver. Google for setting up a Site within Dreamweaver. There you tell DW where on your local drive the site’s files are located, and you set up the FTP connection within DW to download and upload your files. DW’s file management can show you either the files on your local drive or the files on the server (remote) side. Normally one starts with the files already on the local drive. However you can start with the remote view and download the files within DW to start the process. The first thing you will have to know is your FTP connection login info – hostname, user name, and password.

You can find tutorials on Google on how to do what I described, within DW.

Thanks for your quick reply. I have set up the MAMP servers and have downloaded the complete set of documents from my WordPress blog on NetSol. When I set up MAMP the standard WP files were installed in the MAMP folders. When I try to swap my files for the existing MAMP files, I get a database error when I try to access the root directory. How can I install my blog so that MAMP recognizes my WP blog files?

your wp-config file is pointing to your online DB

You need to point it to localhost

if you plan to use your existing data…posts and stuff, you will need to export/import your live database

My directory structure looks like this:

Macbook/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/roadrunner followed by all the roadrunner files I downloaded directly from my NetSol account. The wp-config.php file contains;

// ** MySQL settings – You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘dwpdb’);

/** MySQL database username */
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘root’);

/** MySQL database password */
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘root’);

/** MySQL hostname */
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);

/** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */
define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);

/** The Database Collate type. Don’t change this if in doubt. */
define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);

When I point my browser to localhost I get the “canned” site that comes with the WordPress download, although none of the files from the original wordpress htdocs folder reside in the MAMP/htdocs.

I am totally confused since I cannot seem to get this set up correctly although it seems that I am doing all the setup steps as required.