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It would be the file contained in your .gzip

From a browser: https://localhost/wordpress_urdu ?

It is simple to use, really it’s just a matter of downloading the latest WP, and unzipping to a /var/www/mywordpress folder. Then navigate from the browser to https://localhost/mywordpress and follow the setup instructions from there. And presto!

Also, you may need to have set up your DB and have DB/User/Password information.

In short, I don’t see a reason to download it from the repository. The following should work for downloading directly from www.ads-software.com:

wget https://www.ads-software.com/latest.tar.gz

1. In linux, I think it may be a simple move, but I’m not sure about the command, maybe mv -r /var/www/html/wordpress/ /var/www/ or use nautilus for the GUI.

2. Why it’s put there? It may be the instructions in the link you provided where it reads:

unzip -q latest.zip -d /var/www/html/

This unzips into the html folder, so just remove the subfolder /html/ maybe.

3. Can you access your site in the browser? https://localhost/html/wordpress ? If so, go there, and it may guide you to an initial setup, from which a wp-config.php file is created in your wordpress folder.

Can you post the snippet of SQL code that’s the source of your issue?

If you have your server running, you should put your WordPress folder in /var/www/ (I think), this is where the pages are loaded from to view from the browser. Then you should be able to go to https://localhost/mywordpress/wp-login.php, log in and check the plugins from there.

Ok, I had to look activate a couple of plugins.

Can you change to comment_type is null instead of comment_type = '' ? Perhaps same with post_password = ''.

Update short_open_tag to On in PHP.ini

short_open_tag = On|Off in php.ini. I’ll check this out. Thanks, @martincds!

Ok, is this something I can set in the localhost server? I’m using XAMPP.

Thanks @martincds, I will look into that. It’s odd that it’s not an issue with the production site, just the localhost backup.

Is it requesting for DB info? The info for the DB connection should be in your wp-config.php code; there you can get the host, db user and db password.

The following link helped me get started:

how-to-copy-wordpress-site-to-local-test-server

Scroll down to a post by Sunny Johal where he posted a 10-step guide. Post if you run into other issues, but this should be as straightforward as it can get. My process was a little more involved, but I don’t want to confuse you with unnecessary details.

Ok, one last thing that resolved this for me. Review the .htacess file (located in the root of your WordPress folder). It should be something like:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /mywordpress/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /mywordpress/index.php [L]
<IfModule>
# END WordPress