Comments on: Deploying a WordPress site from localhost

By: Nisar Afridi

Nisar Afridi — Fri, 13 May 2011 09:28:15 +0000

Really great article. i was fedup creating two two sites , localhost + online. Now i can make just one and easily upload it on web server. Thanks

By: Renan Gurgel

Renan Gurgel — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 03:13:19 +0000

Great tutorial, thanks!!

By: SoDoo

SoDoo — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 01:26:58 +0000

Thank you very much Andreas Krohn!
That is what I’m looking for on the internet.
You made it very simple and helpful.
Take care dude!

By: WEBSEOS

WEBSEOS — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 04:15:46 +0000

This is good, I mean the main words are :

replace “olddomainname.com” by “new-domain.com” in database. You can do it in database or here in notepad. The effect is same. But if the MySQL database is very large e.g 60 MB or 100 MB, then this may fail. I mean edit replace.

Then better to import the old database in new database and then replace “old-domain-name.com” by “new-domain.com” in everywhere of database.

Anybody seeking wordpress domain transfer feel free to email me “webseos@gmail.com”

By: gino scaletti

gino scaletti — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 08:27:54 +0000

thank you, changing the src references on the sql file is a great touch.

saved me loads of headaches!

keep up the good work!

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 04:48:55 +0000

Boink wrote
Have you tried changing your operative system hosts file so that you can work locally with your domain? Such that http://www.f1almanac.com points to localhost, overriding the DNS.

For me this would defeat the purpose of local development. I don’t want a live URL pointing to unfinished work.

By: Lonewolf

Lonewolf — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 06:45:51 +0000

We followed your suggestions, and our client’s uploaded website works perfectly.

We have a suggestion though:
1. Create your new domain on your Host Server first.
2. Create the database using your domain control panel and phpmyadmin – We use CPanel. Or get your Hosting Service Provider to do the setup for you.
3. Note the database name and settings generated for the new domain.
4. Then use the exact same settings to create the database on your localhost, and in your wp-config.php file of your new WordPress project.
5. When you upload the completed site: You wont have to edit the wp-config.php again.
6. You still need to edit the *.sql file, as you describe.

Thanks for a great tutorial – Never thought to check if the database requires editing.

By: Richard Philips

Richard Philips — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 06:45:08 +0000

Very good tutorial for deploying the local wordpress website to live server. I am not much in wordpress but today i needed this tutorial for one urgent project from my USA client.

I am much into joomla CMS and have gained expertise in Joomla. Both CMS WP and Joomla are great open source projects.

I am going to write similar tutorial for Joomla 🙂

Regards
Richard Philips
HTMLtoJoomla.com

By: Nishant

Nishant — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 07:57:44 +0000

Hi,
I installed wordpress on my laptop having Windows 7 using Bitnami one click installation.Everything was very until I had the problem of deploying my wordpress blog over the internet.Please help me out…

By: k_htoo

k_htoo — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:23:23 +0000

Thanks a lot. it is working because of ur instructions. Great!

By: Alvaro

Alvaro — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:07:01 +0000

Hi Andreas,
Thanks for this step by step guide, I followed everything but my site is not loading the work made on localhost.
Any clue?

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:50:00 +0000

Thank you, Andreas.

I used this to upload my blog.
I initially received a HTTP 500 Internal Server Error.
To fix this I reverted my .htaccess in the public_html directory to the settings of my previous WP installation.
This is the .htaccess file content:

# BEGIN WordPress

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

# END WordPress

The content that was uploaded from my localhost did not allow the hosted site to work.

Far over my head to explain why but I hope this helps someone else.

-Adam

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:52:46 +0000

Haven’t even started yet as I like to find out everything first. Will be my first wordpress CMS site but your instructions are by far the easiest to follow. Taken the head ache away from one thing any way. Keep up the good work

By: Primoz

Primoz — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:25:10 +0000

It worked for me, thanks!

By: paul

paul — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:13:52 +0000

I have been using this method successfully on several sites. Thanks for this helpful article.

Paul

By: HOW

HOW — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:04:33 +0000

Thank you so much for your share Andreas!!! This is very helpful!

By: Antonio

Antonio — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:11:06 +0000

I would add a little hint: search and replace for any reference to localhost, but also do the same with any reference to your local files.

For instance, you may find in your sql database that your uploads folder is refered as something like “C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-content/uploads” which might cause -or, at least, it caused sometimes to me- to be unable to login in the admin panel (depending on the plug-ins you are using).

So look for that string and delete the local reference part and let the /wp-content/uploads.

Cheers from Valencia.

By: Oskar

Oskar — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:20:48 +0000

Very nice tutorial.
Thank you for your time.

Regards from Belgrade.

By: Antonio

Antonio — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:21:47 +0000

Great post, it was very helpful for me. If you give me your permission, I’d like to translate it into Spanish and add it to my future blog, which will include a little tutorial about how-to easily configure a localhost installation of WordPress.

Cheers from Valencia.

By: Giorgio Partesana

Giorgio Partesana — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:43:29 +0000

Easy! Thanks a lot!