Problem with relocation of the website from one folder to another on localhost

  • Hi to everyone!

    I had a problem which could not resolve gooling information online. I have a website installed on a local computer for learning purposes. The address of the folder with the website is: mamp/htdocs/… (all files of the website1). Then I have decided to add another site to MAMP (website2) in order to install some plugins and test them apart from the website1 just in case that the plugin would brake the first site, wanted to isolate website1.

    To do that I created 2 folders in htdocs folder of MAMP: website1 and website2 and just copied all wordpress files to the folder website1, reloaded MAMP and tried to open the website via browser. However, it just didn’t load properly. The half of the content of the website isn’t accessible and the website just doesn’t work properly,

    Could you please tell me, what have I done wrong? how to relocate a wordpress website from one folder to another within a localhost properly that it works as before?

    Thanks in advance! ??

    • This topic was modified 2 months, 4 weeks ago by philrules.
    • This topic was modified 2 months, 4 weeks ago by philrules.
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  • Thread Starter philrules

    (@philrules)

    googling*

    If you copied *all* of the files, that would include the wp-config.php file, which contains your database connection details, and points to the database for the existing site.

    If you’re setting this up as a separate site, you need to set up a second database, or at least change the database prefix on the second site so you can start fresh with that one.

    Thread Starter philrules

    (@philrules)

    Thanks for your reply!

    As the first experiment I have just created another folder in mamp/htdocs/… (wp files) directory and copied everything to the new folder that it looked like this: mamp/htdocs/investments/… (wp files) – the same website just relocated to a different folder with the same database and it just sopped work properly.

    What have I done wrong? Should I have rewritten the new address somewhere else in the docs or on the wp interface itself?

    Thanks!

    It’s actually pretty easy. If you want to set this all up as a second site that’s not connected to the first site, you can change the database settings in the second sites wp-config.php file.

    If you want to use a separate database for the second site, create it in MAMP (however it’s done, I don’t use MAMP personally) then set that database name, username and password in the variables. If you want to use the same database but keep it separate, change the settings for the database prefix in the same file.

    Doing that will let your second site start off empty and won’t affect the existing site.

    Thread Starter philrules

    (@philrules)

    Thant’s the case!

    I’ve just relocated the website from mamp/htdocs/… (wp website) to mamp/htdocs/investments/… (wp website). After that it just didn’t load properly. I didn’t change anything on the wp-config.php file though.

    Thanks! =)

    PS why does the page of the wp forum gets reloaded every minute by itself? I had to start over with this comment like 3 times because every time when the page reloads itself I had to start over with the comment. In the end I’ve just opened ms word and wrote the comment over there and copypasted it afterwords.

    • This reply was modified 2 months, 3 weeks ago by philrules.
    • This reply was modified 2 months, 3 weeks ago by philrules.

    If all that you’re doing is moving the directory for the site, read this guide:

    https://developer.www.ads-software.com/advanced-administration/upgrade/migrating/#moving-directories-on-your-existing-server

    Thread Starter philrules

    (@philrules)

    Oh, thanks a lot that’s very helpful __)

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