Comments on: Creating a Local Copy of Your WordPress Site Using MAMP

By: Brandon

Brandon — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 05:04:05 +0000

Searching and replacing instances of a url in a sql file is potentially dangerous (technique might break on newer versions…). After looking it seems like changing the url wp points to is pretty much the safest and most universal technique.

PS
Don’t forget to back stuff up.

By: Curtis

Curtis — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:10:11 +0000

that’s actually what i normally do… i thought i got that from the link i sent you… maybe it was from the wordpress site…

By: Brandon

Brandon — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:00:03 +0000

:O ZZOMG!!1

It wanted me to search and replace the url’s in my database tables! That ‘might’ work, but you don’t want to edit the content of the tables directly… I actually humored the tutorial and tried that and didn’t have as much success. Maybe I missed something… anyhow…

A safer way to do the same thing is to:

—> on my localhost
-Make a backup of the DB. Use phpmyadmin (call it ‘local.sql’ maybe) as well as the WP directory tree.
-Go to admin and simply change the URL that wordpress points to as the desired webroot
-Export the DB again with those changes. (call it ‘migrated.sql’ or something) make sure to select ‘CREATE DATABASE’ option in phpmyadmin.

[This effectively points your local WP there as well, so go back to your local DB and recover the original backup (local.sql) made in step one.] – recover local DB, then it should point back at localhost.

—> on my server
-Install WP directory tree to server’s web root (/var/www/ on apache2)
-Install ‘migrated.sql’ DB on server’s mysql. Use phpmyadmin or
http://www.devshed.com/c/a/MySQL/Backing-up-and-restoring-your-MySQL-Database/

Tweek where needed.

By: Curtis

Curtis — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 22:34:34 +0000

yessireebob. check this out.

By: runyon

runyon — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 20:47:49 +0000

how do I do the reverse with a wp site on wamp to shared hosting? It seems like all the links are pointing to localhost/wordpress_2.9.2/wordpress/ instead of my domain… I went in and replaced all references to localhost with mysite.com(example) in the database but it still screws up… is there an easy way to migrate from localhost to shared hosting? thanks

By: davehubler

davehubler — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:43:43 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial… in my case, when following the steps below, MySQL returned error #1007 – Can’t create database, database exists.

Instead of creating a database and THEN importing I just imported the .sql file I downloaded from my host. phpMyAdmin automatically created the database for me and it worked like a charm.

“On the phpMyAdmin homepage there is an option to create a new database. Enter the database name from step 2 in Exporting Your WordPress Database and click Create.
Click on the new database in the sidebar on the left then choose the Import tab at the top”

Just as a note my hosting provider is limedomains.

By: Brian Moseley

Brian Moseley — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:34:53 +0000

wow Curtis I really like the design of your site. Thanks so much for this helpful tip. I had ‘localhost’ instead of ‘localhost:8888′ in my site_id and it kept showing up wrong. Thanks to your site I fixed it easily. Great job!

By: Marisela

Marisela — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:27:01 +0000

Thanks a bunch for this! The tutorial was super useful and easy to follow.

By: duerepheple

duerepheple — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 01:12:06 +0000

OMG enjoyed reading your article. I added your feed to my google reader.