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/
I for instance have MAMP pro running with custom development URLs like project.dev. When I created the one-click installation of WordPress through MAMP, it automaticly entered the port-number into WordPress as well. I don’t think WordPress likes when the port-number is :80 which is standard. Removing the port-number from WordPress Address and Site Address did … Read more
This is quite late for you, but this might help others. I came across this same situation and I found the way. Basically you need to create virtual host as @TheDeadMedic have suggested and then you can use it for ngrok. I found this tutorial for wamp, so you can get idea for XAMPP from … Read more
After migration of an old WP blog on my local web server I obtain white screen, why? is it a wp_options DB table problem? [duplicate]
I assume you have opened port 80 on your local firewall? This doen’t answer your question directly but might be quicker and easier to set up based on the time limits you have. You can try installing a server technology called Apache it is packaged into XAMPP. I have had more success with Apache out … Read more
Firstly, you’re essentially setting up a mini web host at home. I wouldn’t advise this; aside from (potentially) being against your ISP’s terms and conditions, you also want to be really sure you’re not opening up security holes to your local machine. Having said that, you just need to ensure that as well as listening … Read more
The local web server being slow is something that bugs me as well. Some tips might help: I think it is all about the database. Check that you connect to the correct MySQL port (8889 is default). Even though 3306 (MySQL default) might work, changing to the “correct” gave me a boost. In addition, you … Read more
You need to set up port forwarding on your router. So when you go to your public-facing IP address (say it’s 204.122.30.5, use a “what’s my IP” site, or check your router’s info page), you’ll want to set up incoming port xxxx to forward to your local server (in your case 192.168.0.100). Once you get … Read more
Have you: – checked to ensure that the MySQL process is running locally? – set up a user/pass for the database? – used the same user/pass in the wp-config.php file? That error usually means that the SQL server can’t find or authenticate to the database.
Running wordpress on localhost [closed]