Moving from a local site to a server

  • Someone keeps deleting my posts.
    No explanation is given.

    Now, whoever it is may believe that the question has already been asked many times, and just a little searching on the part of the user would answer the question. Have you ever thought that the reason that the question has been asked so many times is that finding the answer to the question is not as obvious as you think.

    Please stop deleting my questions. If no one wants to answer them fine, but who are you to deny others the opportunity?

    Truly, I do not get it.

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  • Thread Starter kiusau

    (@kiusau)

    QUESTION: Is it possible to maintain both a test server on one’s own computer and a web server open to the public on a host server? What I would like to be able to do is administer my public server from my test server.

    I have tried everything imaginable and things keep getting worse.
    These are the pages that I have looked at for help.

    Moving_WordPress
    Changing the Site URL

    Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    There’s nothing to get. I’m sorry, but no one is deleting your posts.

    You may have trouble posting if you are using Safari for example but unless you are using multiple accounts your posts are all here.

    QUESTION: Is it possible to maintain both a test server on one’s own computer and a web server open to the public on a host server? What I would like to be able to do is administer my public server from my test server.

    Sort of. You build the local copy on your PC or Mac then save the whole works, database and files.

    Then you restore the whole thing onto the real server and follow the steps here.

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Moving_WordPress#Changing_Your_Domain_Name_and_URLs

    Keep in mind that restoring to the real server will wipe out anything on that server.

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    What I would like to be able to do is administer my public server from my test server.

    If you want to do all work on the local server and not enter anything on the production server, this might be the tool for you:

    https://versionpress.net/

    I have not tried it, but it sure sounds interesting.

    Thread Starter kiusau

    (@kiusau)

    Jan: Yes, I have found my posts under my own profile, but they do not appear in the forum area in the expected time slots. I guess the order in the forum is according to the latest update, not according to the date and time of origination. Simply, my posts disappeared very quickly, and I could not understand why.

    I am clearly new to WordPress and do not understand clearly how it works. Up until now I have been doing all of my work on my test server created for the purpose of development. Only recently have I uploaded a copy of my test server to my webhost server Lunarpages.

    Is it even possible to run WordPress under the same account name on two different machines with, of course, different real, as opposed to virtual domain names?

    Thread Starter kiusau

    (@kiusau)

    Steve: I looked over versionpress, but it does not appear that you can stage in two different places at the same time. All versions appear to be stored in the same place. Thank you anyway for the suggestion.

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