Move existing site to a local host

  • I already have a live website (theunituk.org.uk) which I am closing down having cancelled my contract with my web host. It will cease to be online on the 24th December, 2018.

    I have already done a full backup of files (public.html, etc) together with a backup of the database.

    However, there is around 3.5 Gigabyte of articles stretching back over several years that I would like to keep for posterity and reference and as I have plenty of storage space on my computers, I would like to keep a working offline model of the website.

    It is a few years since I installed the site using WAMP and have pretty much forgotten how I used it. A quick glance at the WAMP website suggest that I will have to alter their script in order to use it to reinstall a ‘working’ site locally.

    I would appreciate it if someone could give me an indication of what alterations I need to make.

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    I recommend the free Local By Flywheel for local hosting. Importing an existing site is easy: https://local.getflywheel.com/community/t/how-can-i-import-a-site-into-local-by-flywheel/636

    Dion

    (@diondesigns)

    Local by Flywheel is a custom Bitnami stack that’s optimized to export a locally-created site to their commercial Flywheel hosting platform. (That’s why the service is free.) It is not a good solution for your use case of maintaining an archive site.

    Wampserver is pretty much the same application it was 10 years ago, except that it installs modern versions of Apache, MySQL, PHP, and phpMyAdmin. Xampp is another localhost solution for Windows-based systems. If you plan to have the site on a Mac-based system, consider using MAMP.

    If you have some system-level knowledge, the best solution for your use case is to install Apache, MySQL, PHP, and phpMyAdmin yourself.

    In all cases, make sure to map your theunituk.org.uk domain name to 127.0.0.1 in the localhost system’s HOSTS file. In that way you will be able to access the localhost site without the need to extensively edit the database.

    +1 for @sterndata.

    Local by Flywheel is a custom Bitnami stack that’s optimized to export a locally-created site to their commercial Flywheel hosting platform. (That’s why the service is free.) It is not a good solution for your use case of maintaining an archive site.

    Not agree with this. If you know how to handle Local Flywheel software. You can run any files with that.

    Local by Flywheel is the best solution for working on localhost.

    If not work that procedure, have to do that manually.

    In all cases, make sure to map your theunituk.org.uk domain name to 127.0.0.1 in the localhost system’s HOSTS file. In that way you will be able to access the localhost site without the need to extensively edit the database.

    Good solution ??

    Hi Peter,

    You can transfer your website from live to local server. Please follow these steps.
    Install a local server(WAMP) on your computer. goto wamp > www folder and paste all the files in this folder.

    Now make a new database in phpmyadmin and import your database file.

    This article will help you to understand this whole process.

    You can also use Plugin to automate this process.

    Hope this helps.

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