Transferring WordPress installation from a Mac to a PC

  • Hello everyone,

    This is going to be difficult for me to describe, but I’ll do my best. I’m trying to migrate my WordPress site to another server. So far, my previous files are on a MacBook Pro and all of my files are on MAMP. I want to transfer those files to another PC that has WAMP. In summary, I’ve done everything that is posted on the forms, but there was little success. Has anyone performed this task successfully? Are there any steps that I missed? I’d appreciate some feedback.

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  • Can you describe more what was unsuccessful with your attempt? Did you see any errors?

    Thread Starter vanguian92

    (@vanguian92)

    I installed all of the Visual C++ libraries, and I updated WAMP to 3.0.8. Then, I backed up my database and imported it phpMyAdmin and re-created the user that has database specific privileges. Furthermore, I updated WordPress on my Mac to the latest version (4.8) and transferred my backups to WAMP.

    This is when my “unsuccessful” attempt comes in. After I go to my login page on my other localhost which has WAMP installed, it doesn’t show up like the original login page on my Mac. It’s difficult because this is all on my localhost.

    A big difference I’ve noticed between WAMP and MAMP is that the MAMP makes you use the port number by default in the URL. For example, to see the doc root, you’d enter:

    https://localhost:8888
    or
    https://localhost:8888/wp-admin

    My WAMP installation doesn’t make me use a port like this. I can go directly to https://localhost
    or
    https://localhost/wp-admin

    Or is there something else you’re seeing wrong with the wp-admin page?

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 9 months ago by Jack.
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