Restore WordPress Backup on Local Server

If you were using Apache2 I could give you pointers on configuring a VirtualHost and so on. However you are using IIS, there may be assistance available somewhere else on this. But wait, the reason your IT division bought iis is because then they would have support, get back to them.

Hi @kaka9889

As far as I understood, You want to migrate your current WP site to localhost or your internet server, correct me if I wrong. you can use any one of these plugins to do the task.

Plugins

Thanks

I have started to read more about WordPress and found that The way I set up the word press is via WebPlatformInstaller_x64_en-US using IIS on server 2019. So basically Installing WordPress on IIS using the Web Platform Installer.

Is it a third type of making website in word press while there are also other ways too like XAMPP & WAMP

What is the difference between these three types ?

Can someone please advise?

Hi @sharminritu

Thanks for your reply. Yes, you are right ..I have got the back up of the existing WordPress blog and this back up is provided to me with the .tar extension. After unzipping it I can see the following folder :

private_html (Its a folder which is empty)
public_html (Its a folder with some sub-folder & files inside)
rftqbvcmsd-20210324-1447.sql (Its a file)

So I just want to restore it into my word press setup and view it on my local server. Please advise what is the best and easy approach should be.

Hi folks

I set up the fresh local WordPress server with IIS (server 2019) via Web platform installer
and created a test local site with existing themes in WordPress (just for the sake of test)

Which is fine and able to browse locally on the server (also on the LAN) and all good…But now I want to replace it with my blog which was hosted somewhere else.I have got the back up of that blog which is in a folder public_htm and with database file (filename.sql)

I have restored/replaced contents of the public_html on my current server with the back up folder of my blog at the following location C:\inetpub\wwwroot\wordpress
So now it has got wp-admin,wp-content etc..
Now I am trying to replace the existing database and import the backup database file via phpmyadmin and it is giving me this error`
[
HTTP Error 413.1 – Request Entity Too Large
The page was not displayed because the request entity is too large.

Detailed Error Information:
Module	   RequestFilteringModule
Notification	   BeginRequest
Handler	   PHP_via_FastCGI
Error Code	   0x00000000
Requested URL	   https://localhost:80/phpmyadmin/index.php?route=/import
Physical Path	   C:\inetpub\wwwroot\phpmyadmin\index.php
Logon Method	   Not yet determined
Logon User	   Not yet determined

]

Please advise what should I do OR is there any other easy way to replace the database file.I am newbie to wordpress.

Thanks