Copying WP to XAMPP for local development

  • Resolved Turos

    (@turos)


    12 years ago

    Hey guys,

    to be able to develop more and to enhance my current wordpress blog I decided to set up a local development blog. Everything went great, I did copy all files and the database, changed the siteurl and home in the database, changed the database user and passwort and browsed to my local blog. It showed up, but when I tried to click on a link, XAMPP wants an authentication. When I enter the authentication I get redirected to the XAMPP starting home page. I guess it has something to do with htaccess and redirecting rules, but I have to less knowledge to start messing around with these options.

    Any advice is welcome ??

    Greetings,
    Turos

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  • CiderJack

    (@ciderjack)

    I had exactly this issue.

    1. Delete the content of .htaccess and save the empty file
    2. In the WP admin, change permalinks to default (and click save). This rewrites the .htaccess file with the correct locations. The blog should now work correctly.
    3. You should now be able to set the permalinks back to the custom setting you had previously and everything should continue to work.

    Hope this helps! Here’s the thread that solved it for me:
    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/local-pages-dont-load-xampp

    Thread Starter Turos

    (@turos)

    Thank you very much! That helped alot and solved the problem. Without your help, I would have never come up with such a solution.

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