The message displayed by Chrome in your screen shot indicates the problem is more likely a network / server issue than a problem with the website. The puzzling part is you say you can open other sites on localhost. Do you access those sites the same way i.e localhost/someotherdir? What happens if you type http://127.0.0.1/2016/nuggetcity? … Read more
You might need to install Xampp or Wamp on your computer first. Then setup a Virtual Host on your computer which will make sure your when you type your website address, it will point it to the local installation of your computer. Download XAMPP: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html Setting up Virtual Host: http://ddmboss.wordpress.com/2013/07/10/how-to-set-up-virtual-hosts-using-xampp/ Hope that helps
How to make a copy of a local wordpress build in MAMP?
Generally you should only configure WP for localhost if you have physical possession of the computer/server. You cannot access localhost of a remote computer. Well there are tricks that this is beyond the scope of this discussion. Edited to add To install WP on localhost, after installing the WP files, go to: http://localhost/ or if … Read more
Unable to access WordPress server locally running using vagrant
By default, Windows does not allow DNS redirection! There is no set of commands within hosts, httpd.conf, etc that will cause 127.0.0.1 sample.com in your hosts file to redirect all requests for sample.com to localhost. (That said, I experimented with various configurations of the standard hosts line and determined that (on Win 10 and MAMP), … Read more
I think your process for migrating to the live server was sound. I’m pretty sure that your issue is with step #2, more specifically the replacing of local URLs with the server URLs. While you likely replaced all of the URLs correctly, it’s possible that the serialized data in the database didn’t get changed to … Read more
It looks like you’re connecting to the live database from your local machine. Not many hosts allow remote connections to the database by default. You may have to request this type of access from your host. Also, it’s highly recommended you work with a local copy of your database instead of connecting (and possibly changing) … Read more
You would need to copy the entire local database to the online area. That means that both areas should have the same plugins and themes installed. You would also need to copy all media files from local to online. Lots of works. There are plugins that will ‘clone’ a local database (and content and media … Read more
EDIT: I figured out the problem by going to this site. Forgot to include the actual files in the WP folder in htdocs. :\ D’oh!