hosting a wordpress site locally to my team

You can create a local server with the installing linux and then you can add your project to that server so that all your team member which are connected with same network are can view the site. When you install Apache or IIS or any other web server application (in your case WAMP), your computer … Read more

Localhost wordpress site redirects to public site

WordPress will try to redirect you to the canonical URL for the site, as set in the database during the initial install. But you can override it in the wp-config.php file by setting the WP_HOME constant: http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Blog_address_.28URL.29 If WP is installed in a subdirectory, you might also need to set WP_SITEURL.

Why isn’t my imported database showing up? install.php pops up and adds new tables to the database

Your issue likely lies somewhere within wp-config.php. You should not need to run any install if your tables already exist, the wp-admin/install.php is only used when no tables are detected with the settings in wp-config.php. Going through parameter by parameter, I’ll give you some idea of what everything is. DB_NAME is the name of the … Read more

403 Forbidden with gutenberg

In case anybody comes across this, I had the following in my apache config <Directory “/home/*/Sites”> AllowOverride All FileInfo AuthConfig Limit Indexes Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec Require method GET POST OPTIONS </Directory> The WP API was trying to use the method PUT. I also believe it sometimes uses the method DELETE. Changing above code … Read more