Yes and no. You can bypass the first step of the installation by supplying a wp-config.php file with all the DB details (and hopefully you will not forget to change the secrets in it), but the second stage includes configuring the admin user, and this information needs to be stored in the DB therefor either … Read more
You can see the username in the database and change the password easily. You do not need to reinstall wordpress. If you need to reconfigure, there are several ways: Delete wp-config.php and htaccess files and re run install Delete the information in the database and reconfigure it But if you want an easy way to … Read more
Export the WordPress XML file Create a temporary wordpress.com account Import the WordPress XML file into the temporary wordpress.com account Export the WordPress.com XML file Re-install WordPress, with fresh database, etc. Import WordPress.com XML file
Do this. upload fresh wordpress on your remote server or install it from the cpanel. then create a database. then export all the table and data from the local database and import it in to the remote database (if the tables is exist in remote database then drop it.) then go to the tabel wp_options … Read more
Two things I would try: Create a test.php file and only put <?php phpinfo(); ?> in it. If that doesn’t work I would create an .htaccess file and put: AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm .html AddHandler x-httpd-php .php .htm .html When you are asked to download a php file, it usually means that php isn’t working.
I run a multisite setup for developing, it saves time and you can just delete the sub-site when you’re done developing. I also have a few different .xml files of common content types that I tend to use a lot (Portfolio items, Standard pages / posts, Testimonials, etc.) and I just import each one as … Read more
make a backup of your SQL database for the site and try running these queries manually on the database through php myadmin. change the URLs to match your site http://example.com/blog As always, be careful when running queries on the database UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = replace(option_value, ‘http://www.oldurl’, ‘http://www.newurl’) WHERE option_name=”home” OR option_name=”siteurl”; UPDATE wp_posts SET … Read more
Hopefully I can be of a little help. Taking a look at the InstandWP website, it appears to be an install version of WordPress that installs into a directory, and then contains all settings etc for the site to run in a local environment. I am not sure on the file structure of InstantWP, so … Read more
Generally when moving a WordPress site I copy the files to the new path then update the URL in the Dashboad. After logging into the ‘new’ install and making sure everything looks good I remove the old directory.
Can I install a WordPress site locally from a .tar.gz file? This likely depends entirely on the contents of the archive. .tar.gz is just a compression format. You will have to extract it to have any website work correctly but otherwise the particular storage format has no bearing on your question. I created a backup, … Read more