Transferring WP site from Bluehost to local server (Bitnamii WP Stack)

  • Hi all!

    Summary of my question: Error message when trying to access the local site that I’m trying to install on my Mac.

    1- I downloaded a backup of my live site to my computer. (I was with Bluehost).
    2- I installed Bitnami WordPress Stack.

    3- In the live site’s downloaded files, I found a file called ‘mylivesite’ in the ‘public_html’ folder and another file called ‘xyz.sql’ (my database) ‘mysql’ folder. (I just invented the ‘mylivesite’ and ‘xyz’ names for the sake of my question!)

    4- In the meantime, my Bitnami folder contains the following folder structure: ‘apps’>’phpmyadmin’ and ‘wordpress’. The ‘wordpress’ folder contains ‘htdocs’, which, in my eyes, looks the same as my ‘mylivesite’ folder that I downloaded from Bluehost.

    5- I copied my ‘mylivesite’ folder into the ‘wordpress’ folder and renamed it ‘mylocalsite’. (I did not remove the ‘htdocs’ that came with the Bitnami installation. Should I?)

    6- Followed the instructions listed here on changing the wp-config file, importing your database into phpmyadmin, replacing the link names, etc… which all seemed to be ok:
    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/how-to-copy-wordpress-site-to-local-test-server

    7- But now when I type: https://localhost:8080/mylocalsite, there’s an error message.

    Any ideas on how to solve this problem? It’s kind of been driving me crazy for a few days now.

    Thanks!!!

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  • I cannot help with details here since I use Xampp in Windows rather than what you have, but I do think you would be better off by coming at this from a different direction. First get a WordPress installation working locally by following whatever tutorial might show you how to do that with what you have, then add your wp-content folder to that installation, then drop all the tables from your database (using phpMyAdmin) and import your downloaded database, then give wp-config.php your correct table_prefix…

    …and at that point, there is more than one way to make your database work in its new location. Here are some links related to that, and I will try to help if you want to take this new approach…

    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/moving-wordpress-to-subfolder-with-new-domain-name?replies=4#post-6391941
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Changing_The_Site_URL#Relocate_method
    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/url-changed-now-its-all-dead?replies=12#post-6441548

    Thread Starter chanaG

    (@chanag)

    Thank you, Leejosepho! I will definitely try out your approach and let you know how it goes!

    In Xampp you will want/need to do some editing in ‘my.ini’ in order to be able to import a database or whatever any greater than 20M. Post back when you get an initial WordPress installation running in Xampp and I will show you the edits I have made there.

    Thread Starter chanaG

    (@chanag)

    Ok, great!

    My edits to ‘my.ini’ were for something else altogether, so here is all your should need for ‘php.ini’ to increase your upload limits:

    ; Maximum size of POST data that PHP will accept.
; Its value may be 0 to disable the limit. It is ignored if POST data reading
; is disabled through enable_post_data_reading.
; https://php.net/post-max-size
;Added to increase allowable
post_max_size = 20M
;post_max_size=8M

; Maximum allowed size for uploaded files.
; https://php.net/upload-max-filesize
;Added to increase allowable
upload_max_filesize = 20M
;upload_max_filesize = 50M
;upload_max_filesize=2M

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