How to view live site

  • Hi, I’m new, and have very limited tech skills, so please bear with me while I ask a silly question.

    I want to look at my live wordpress page, but I don’t know how.

    I have my own domain, which is pretty much unused.

    I’ve installed wordpress locally, and I can look at my local wordpress pages, via MAMP, and I can edit and make other WP changes etc. MAMP shows Apache and MySQL server green lights. All seems to be working well.

    I’ve installed Filezilla, which appears to connect properly, and which shows my local WP files in the left pane. And I have been able to drag and drop these files into the WP locations in the right pane. All of these processes seem to work ok.

    But when I close down filezilla and MAMP, I don’t know how to access my wordpress page. I’ve drag/dropped my files to some place, but I don’t know where. my local WP page has a user name profile at the top right corner, but I can’t log in using this profile, even moving away from my mac and using my ipad.

    I know, it’s a very dumb point to get stuck at. But once I know where my live WP page is, I can point my domain towards it. Please help (if possible, without using any undefined acronyms or jargon). Thanks very much.

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  • You will need to also setup a DataBase at your host. Once that is setup, you will need to point WordPress to the DataBase.

    Since how to do so can vary by web host, please ask your web host about this (or review their specific documentation on the topics I have mentioned).

    These are the general guidelines:

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Installing_WordPress#Step_2:_Create_the_Database_and_a_User

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Installing_WordPress#Step_3:_Set_up_wp-config.php

    You have installed wordpress locally using a MAMP stack which is MAC, APACHE, MYSQL & PHP.

    Mac = your computer you are installling the website on
    Apache = the web server you are using to compile the website
    MySQL = the database server you are using to store all of the content on
    PHP = the programming language required to display your website

    When you set up the website on your MAMP stack, you would have to have a folder of files which makes the website run and apache would be the server they would run on. At the same time, you would need a database connection to those files and this database is where every piece of content used on the website gets stored. In MAMP, this would be stored in PHPMyAdmin.

    You have completed the first step of moving your site from a local environment to a web environment. Moving the files is the first step. You would then need to export the database from your local environment into a sql file. You need to create a database on your web hosting control panel and import that local sql file into the database. The last step is to configure the newly created database settings in your wp-config.php file.

    When you turn off MAMP on your mac, you can no longer see your website because the website is not actually working on the internet. All of the files are up there but they don’t have any connection to anything so the website is never actually live. What you are looking at is your local copy

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