Moving a WordPress Installation from Local Server to a Live Site

All of my pages broke when I uploaded the site. The homepage works but everything else is missing from the server. Does anyone know where I may have made this fatal error?

What about setting up a blog on localhost and latching it onto a subdomain wordpress installation on a server. is that possible?

Really nice video,

It really helped me..

Great post, I almost stumbled on the last task where the database had to be imported. I tried to overwrite an existing databas and that was my error. A NEW DATABASE must be created in MySQL and the local database imported into this empty database.

Very helpful & clear! Thank you very much!

Seriously this was a time saving tutorial. I was desperately searching for a walk through, and this really hit the spot! Thank you so much for you time on this!

The only issue I had was reconnecting some images from the :8888 ... just simply re-upped them because of the script I am using for the thumbnails>> http://www.darrenhoyt.com/2008/04/02/timthumb-php-...

Great work! You have may a fan of me.

Thanks, very useful video.

Thanks Adeline and "Editorial Staff" - I did manage to find my way back in by editing the URL in the local database.

So I've got it up and going again, THANKS!!

Again, great video - very helpful.

This video was great and I was successful in moving a local WP to a web server.

Linda,

I had the same issue with mine and I found the WP Codex useful.

Check out: http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL

Make sure you back up your database.

"Add these two lines to your wp-config.php, where "example.com" is the NEW location of your site.

define('WP_HOME','http://example.com');
define('WP_SITEURL','http://example.com');"

This worked out fine for me.

Hi there, thanks so much for this clear video explanation of how to move the local site to a live server.

I would like to gain access to my local site again, but before I exported my database I followed the instructions and changed the domain location in Settings > General. So now, of course, the domain points to the live site.

I can't figure out where I go to change those URLs back again on my local site. Thanks for your help on this!

In the post and in custom fields the URL that I hard coded says something like http://localhost/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/myim...

but my new URL should be http://www.mydomain.com/wp-content/uploads/myimage...

Do I need to go in after I move the site and change each one of the URLs by hand in the posts and pages?

or is there a way to use relative URLs in custom fields and posts, I know I cannot use somethign like "TEMPLATEPATH" . because I can't write PHP in my posts...

How do you handle images that have absolute URLs in the blog? Can you edit the export file before importing it?