Installing WordPress on WAMP localhost

  • Hi,

    I’ve just taken over admin of a web site running on WordPress. I have 2 questions.

    1. The site has no dev area and I want to setup WordPress on my localhost running under WAMP server.
    I have downloaded WordPress, unzipped the file and followed the installation instructions and I get the error “PHP is not running”. Creating the wp-config.php file made no difference.
    I have checked WAMP and all appears to be OK. I am running PHP 5.6.25 and MySQL 5.7.14.
    I have read numerous posts on this forum and it appears to be as issue. How do I get around it.
    I need to reset the access levels on the site and don’t want to do that in production just yet.

    2. The website is backed up to a Dropbox account. The backup is created using UpdraftPlus and wish to use the file stored in Dropbox. How do I Restore the file to my localhost?

    Thank you for your guidance.

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  • Hi branko3184,
    Bravo! I am glad that you successfully completed the migration.

    Thread Starter branko3184

    (@branko3184)

    Hi Shashi Kumar,

    All is working well and having some fun making changes to the website.
    Again thank you for all your help.
    I have 2 questions with one slightly off topic, hope you don’t mind:
    1. When I make changes to the website pages and develop new ones what’s the best way to upload the info back into production.
    – I could do a backup and simply restore it into production. The problem is that member data could have changed in the meantime.
    – I could FTP the changed pages but then what about plugins like S2Member as changes are made there as well.

    2. What would you use to export S2Member details to CSV while we wait for S2Member Pro status to be sorted out. I am playing with AmrUsers but can not get it to pull out all member data.

    indahal

    (@indahalmarifah)

    In case you face some issues with the above method, you will have to migrate files manually.
    1. Zip and download following folders Themes, Plugins, and Downloads
    2. Unzip and replace it with your localhost folders
    3. Log in to phpmyadmin of your live hosting. Export the database as SQL.
    4. Login to phpmyadmin of your test website and import the SQL file linked to the WordPress database.
    5. Change the site url directly in the database. ex.https://localhost/ or anything
    It should get migrated.
    Reference:- downloadilmu.com
    To change the sitename in database. Search for Changing the URL directly in the database.

    Let me know if you face any problem.

    Hello,

    I have installed wampserver 3.1.7 with wordpress 5.0.3 on window 7.

    Default wampserver 3.1.7 installation
    For wordpress 5.0.3 below link.
    https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-install-wordpress-on-your-windows-computer-using-wamp/

    I have created single website which need to access by LAN connected computers but not succeed.

    https://ip address/mysite – url

    host
    127.0.0.1 localhost
    127.0.0.1 mysite
    ::1 localhost
    ::1 mysite

    Can you please suggest steps or m I doing something wrong while installation.

    Thanks in advance!!

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