You have two alternatives: Change the DocumentRoot directive in the WAMP httpd.conf file (use CTRL+F to find it). That way you will change the whole root folder of your server, be aware of that! Create a virtual host that will bind a domain to a particular subfolder in your document root (similar to subdomains logic). … Read more
WordPress generate urls dynamically, using the data from the database. It is up to themes/plugins to use wordpress functionalities to generate urls instead of hardcoding them. WordPress has a series of functions that are supposed to be used when dealing with urls, some of them are: get_template_directory_url (theme url) plugin_dir_url (plugin url) get_stylesheet_directory_url (stylesheet url) … Read more
Line 1090 is function add_query_arg( …$args ) { This is the variable-length argument syntax that was introduced in PHP 5.6. You’re probably running an older version of PHP than that. Since version 5.2 WordPress requires at least PHP 5.6.20, but currently recommends 7.4+. See the requirements page or the readme in the download.
Well it took a while, but I figured out what was happening here, and the upshot is: no good deed goes unpunished. When setting up my server, I enabled IPv6 because I want to be a good internet citizen and help our collective migration to IPv6 I chose easyengine to manage my WP sites, which … Read more
I think what you need to do to get the local install back up and running is either edit some database files manually, or make a couple changes to the wpconfig.php file in the root of your wp install. check out this codex page for instructions on editting this file. You will need to make … Read more
Check the ‘siteurl’ and ‘home’ values in your wp_options table, and update those URLs to: http://localhost:8000/wordpress
WordPress do not work like Facebook or Twitter. Each WordPress installation is a separate application, it has its own database where users are stored, each installation is independent of one another. Your localhost installation of WordPres has no connection to the one on the server they are two entirely different entities. But you can copy … Read more
All of your content is linked to your localhost install. I would suggest using a plugin like Search & Replace to amend your URLs. Also if you haven’t already, you will need to change the two entries in the wp_options table (where wp_ is the prefix used). They are rows 0 & 37. These are … Read more
If you have database access,of course you have because it is localhost. You can update password(MD5) in database. Or if you have not access.You can try code in function.php only one time. <?php $user_id = 1; $password = ‘HelloWorld’; wp_set_password( $password, $user_id ); ?>
It is painful to clone the wordpress site sometimes when the site has a lot of plugins and custom code. I did it manually before. But I am using “Duplicator” plugin to handle this now. Please check: https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/