Trying to revive an old wp blog locally in xampp from backups

  • DougieT

    (@dougiet)


    1 month ago

    Once upon a time I cobbled together a sort of blog/site kind of thing for my brother-in law. I learned a few things about wordpress, which I’ve now mostly forgotten. The site is not hosted online currently, but I do have a backup of the files and database.

    It’s been quite a while since it was last alive and online, certainly a few years, and I’m trying to revive it.

    I’ve set up xampp for vhosts and I’ve tried simply copying the files to an appropriate folder under htdocs, importing the database using phpmyafmin, editing wp-config.php with credentials to access the database with the right table prefix. Didn’t work – I just get a white page from https://www.mysite.com. https://www.mysite.com/wp-admin gives an Object not found! error page. I’m wondering if it’s likely that the site won’t run on current php version, although I’m not sure how I would find out.

    I have installed the latest version of wordpress under xampp successfully so I’m fairly confident it’s not a file permissions problem.

    I’m not quite sure what to do next though. Any ideas would be gratefully received.

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  • threadi

    (@threadi)

    Object not found! is an error message that indicates that the domain you are trying to access does not lead to a destination. If you are using XAMPP, I think you need to access localhost and not just any domain. If the project was previously running under a domain, you would need to adjust it in the WordPress settings. See: https://developer.www.ads-software.com/advanced-administration/upgrade/migrating/#changing-the-site-url

    Thread Starter DougieT

    (@dougiet)

    Thanks. I have set up xampp for virtual hosts so I can point any url I want to any folder I want on the local machine. So I don’t think it’s that. I’ll read that link however.

    • This reply was modified 1 month ago by DougieT.
    threadi

    (@threadi)

    I looked again. Won’t be WordPress either. WordPress is not even called up when the message appears. So it’s more likely to be an XAMPP setting that’s causing the problem. I think there are also logs there. Have a look at them.

    Thread Starter DougieT

    (@dougiet)

    I think my xampp installation is set up correctly. I have been able to install wordpress to a local folder called …/htdocs/wordpresstest and point wordpresstest.com to that folder using virtual hosts, and it works as I would expect it to. I can browse posts, I can access the administration area, add posts, plugins.

    The “site” / installation I’m trying to revive is in a local folder called …/htdocs/thestumbler.co.uk and pointed to by thestumbler.co.uk. I have added a basic hml called pickle.htlp file under …/htdocs/thestumbler.co.uk/ it says Hello world! and works if directly accessed by url. This proves to me that Apache can at least serve pages from this folder.

    I’m going to have a closer look at file permissions across the two site folders and see what I find, but I’m wondering if database corruption could be affecting things.

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