WAMP & Windows 8 – Fail to access phpmyadmin

Ok, I’ve just read the ‘WAMP +WP3.5’ thread. Having clicked on the Serverpress page, looked through the forum and followed a suggestion, (ie open 127.0.0.1) it would appear that the phpmyadmin file is out of date.

So, which of the files do I need to install (or do I need all of them)?

Chris

ARGH!!!!!

Just spent 30 minutes pratting around downloading the ‘3.5.5 – all languages’ file, reading & acting upon the Readme file & Documentation file.txt.http and then attempting to restart Wamp and open up the phpadmin but got the same result.

This is now beyond my IT knowledge.

Anyone?

Right, I’ve sort of sorted it; download the appropriate 32/64 version of the apachie version, not the php version.

Grrrr……

I gave up yesterday and when straight to XAMP which worked on Windows 8… Got the missing DLL bug and I thought life is too short.

Daniel

It is! Didn’t know about XAMP ??

Currently importing files from live site.

XAMP is similar and has a nice control panel. You can optionally run Apache etc as a service. I didn’t get on with WAMP.

Anyway, I am trying to recreate my blog site locally and so for I have imported the posts. Not sure what I do next to import the plugins (via ftp), themes and settings. Is this sort of thing you have done.

“Anyway, I am trying to recreate my blog site locally” – ditto.

I installed the Tools/import ‘plugin’, but it failed to upload some of the content, so I’m installing all the plugins manually, activating in bulk and will try to reimport in a minute.

Fingers X

And now to import the theme…

There must be a simple way to duplicate a website(?). ??

Chris

And duplicate created. Thankfully a lot of things I use have the ability to download their settings (phew!)

Now where was I 18 hours ago…?

I have done a bit of searching and there is a process out there I have come accross

MIGRATING A WORDPRESS/WPMU/BUDDYPRESS WEBSITE

This makes use of a php script :
WordPress db Search and Replace Tool

Looks straight forward . The only reason I have tried it out is that as I am copying https://mydomain.biz to https://localhost/mydomain.local I want to try and run the script on my local (XAMPP) install not on the public facing site – the instructions seem to indicate the converse.

Daniel

Hi

I think I am nearly there following these steps:

1) ftp copy of blog files from remote site
2) import SQL backup into my local db
3) run WordPress db Search and Replace Tool

That is, I can see an exact copy of my remote blog home page: posts, tweets etc when I go to my local home url

https://localhost/myblog.biz

Also, I can see that when I mouse over each of my posts the correct local link is set correctly to
https://localhost/myblog.biz/my-category/title-of-post

However, looks can be deceiving ?? as when I actually click on any of the posts I am redirected immediately to
https://localhost/XAMPP and so not viewing any of my prosaic text….. ouch!!!!

Any thoughts anyone in the community. I will try and enable wordpress debug as MySql debug seems to want to whinge about a few depreciated function calls

Daniel