Transferring Website back and forth on local hosts

  • Resolved george_Lambrinos

    (@george_lambrinos)


    10 years, 6 months ago

    I’ve been wordpressing at home on a localhost for a couple of days now and have really been enjoying the process. The only problem now is how do I show my boss the progress I’ve made?

    After snooping around on the internet this is what I came up with:

    I installed Wamp on my work laptop and using phpadmin exported my sql database from my home computer and imported it to my work laptop.

    I tried to mirror my work laptop and home computer as much as possible and named the sql database the same thing. I was able to get into my site on the work laptop(all the pages appeared in the dashboard) but is seems my plugins and theme haven’t transferred. I click to view my site but its just white… no error just a blank screen. Am I missing a step? Must I transfer another folder?

    I was planning on working on a local server doing this transfer sequence between work and home and was wondering if it can even be done (I heard about url linking problems) A short check list or play by play of what I must do would be very helpful.

    Regards from Pittsburgh,

    -George

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  • Did you also move all of the WordPress files themselves?

    Check out https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Moving_WordPress for all of the details on how to move your site in various scenarios.

    Though, honestly, it might be easier for you to find some development space online as an intermediary between your localhost work and going live to the client. My standard practice is to use an unlisted subdomain on the client’s site – example, dev.clientsite.com.

    Or you could set one computer or the other up as a webserver and serve the site from there. But that sounds hard. ??

    Thread Starter george_Lambrinos

    (@george_lambrinos)

    Thanks for you help Jess,

    I ended up using a duplicator plugin

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