![]() Once you download VaultPress backup, just extract it locally and replace flywheel’s wp-content folder with VaultPress’s wp-content folder. You need to first Prepare Backup and then you will see Download link option. Step-7 How to import your live site to localhost site?Īs I use VaultPress as my primary backup, I have downloaded latest copy of site backup including wp-content folder, DB backup, plugins, themes and all. SSL – you could enable it by trusting OpenSSL certificate by clicking TRUST button.DATABASE – provides simple username, password, host, port for your local site.SITE SETUP – provides all details about WordPress version, PHP version, Web Server (Apache), MySQL Version, Site Domain, Local File Path and more.You will see nice details about your local site in app now. You local site will be up and running within 2 minutes.Ĭheck it out below screenshot. You could always change your email later on.Ĭlick on Add Site and you are done. Make sure you don’t change email as of now. If you are familiar with nginx and using it on your live site then don’t make any changes. In my case I’ve also changed Web Server to Apache as my live site is running on Apache server. Make sure you choose 7.x PHP version for faster site loading performance and 5.6 MySQL version as most of the current hosting provider like Bluehost and Hostgator provides those configuration. You will need these informations in later steps. Please note here your Local site domain and Local site path. It will prompt you to enter your site name. Step-3 Create local WordPress site on laptopĬlick on Local by Flywheel Desktop icon to launch Flywheel application. Flywheel should be installed without any issue Provide your Mac or Windows admin password during setup process.Double click on Binary / executable file.Just provide your email ID and Download binary.Let me share steps on how to get started with Local by Flywheel. It’s been only 2 days now playing with Local by Flywheel for my local WordPress development platform and I’m already in love with it. In this way, you can keep a copy on the server to test and push changed to live site quickly.I love this: - Chris Coyier August 22, 2017 ![]() Alternatively, you can create a staging site to clone your live site on the server. Also, you can do the updates and testing on the localhost and then deploy in production server without facing problems. This will help you to move the content to live server when required. We strongly recommend you to keep a local copy of your live site. You will be able to see all the posts and media files as you created on your localhost. This is NOT your database username and password as you created in previous step 6, it is the username and password of your WordPress installation you might have chosen during localhost installation. Login to your WordPress admin dashboard with the URL “” using the same username and password details of your localhost. Warning: If you change the database name in wp-config.php file, ensure to rename the database under “Operations” tab of phpMyAdmin. Now that you have a database, username and password which are correctly configured in WordPress configuration file. If you want to install WordPress on subdirectory then create the folder and then upload the content inside the folder. Generally the content can be uploaded under the root “/public_html”. Launch your FTP client and upload the localhost files to a live server. ![]() Step 1 – Upload Localhost Files to Live Server Login to your live WordPress admin dashboard and check the content.Verify and modify the database name and password in wp-config.php file.Replace all occurrences of localhost links to live site’s links.Import the local database tables to live database using phpMyAdmin option on live server.Create a new database on your live server using phpMyAdmin option.Export local database using phpMyAdmin of local server.Use FTP and upload all the localhost files to your live server’s root.Summary: Move WordPress Localhost Site to Live Serverīelow is the summary of steps involved in this process: ![]() If you are using SiteGround, you can use the staging function to create a copy of your local site on the server. At any case it makes a good sense to understand how to move WordPress localhost site to live server so that you can use your local copy to restore the content on emergency. Sometimes you may also do periodic testing and development on localhost site and then move the changes to the live server. When you start building a site, it may also necessary to build a site on localhost and then move the content to a live server after everything works fine. In our previous articles we have described how to install WordPress on localhost using MAMP and how to move live WordPress site to localhost. ![]()
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