Do you want to move WordPress from a local server to a live site?
Using WordPress on a local server is a common way to work on your site in private. Eventually, you’ll need to move it to a live server to make it available for online visitors.
In this article, we’ll show you how to move WordPress from local server to live site, step by step.
Why Move WordPress From a Local Server to a Live Site?
Building your WordPress blog on a local server is a safe way to test changes on your website without affecting visitors.
When you’re finished perfecting your website, the next step is to move to from your local server to a live site.
Let’s show you two different ways you can move your site from a local server to a live site.
The first method uses a WordPress migration plugin and is recommended for beginners.
In the second method, we will show you how to manually move WordPress from a local server to a live site.
You can choose the method that works best for you:
- Method 1. Move WordPress from local server to live site using a plugin
- Method 2. Manually move WordPress from local server to live site
Before You Migrate Your WordPress Site
In order for you to migrate WordPress from a local server to live server, you need to have a few things in place.
First, we’re assuming that you have a WordPress site running on a local server (also called localhost) on your computer, and you have full access to it.
Next, you’ll need to have a domain name and web hosting.
To make your decision easier, we recommend using Bluehost. They’re an officially recommended WordPress hosting company, and they are giving WPBeginner users an exclusive 60% discount + free domain and SSL.
Basically, you can get started for as little as $2.75 per month.
If you want a great Bluehost alternative, then take a look at Siteground. They also have a special deal for WPBeginner readers.
If you need help setting up your website, then follow our step by step guide on how to make a website.
Finally, you will need an FTP program and know how to use FTP so that you can upload your local server site to the live site.
Ready? Let’s begin migrating your WordPress site.
Method 1. Transfer WordPress from Local Server to Live Site Using a Migration Plugin
This method is easier and recommended for beginners. We’ll be using a WordPress migration plugin to move WordPress from localhost to a live site.
Step 1. Install and Setup the Duplicator Plugin
First, you need to do is install and activate the Duplicator plugin on your local site. For more details, see our step by step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.
Upon activation, you need to go to Duplicator » Packages page and click on the ‘Create New’ button.
This brings you to a screen where you can give your backup a name.
Then, click the ‘Next’ button.
Duplicator will now run some tests to see if everything is in order.
If all items are marked ‘Good’, then click on the ‘Build’ button.
This process may take a few minutes depending on the size of your website. You need to leave this tab open until the process is complete.
Once finished, you’ll see download options for ‘Installer’ and ‘Archive’ packages. You need to click on the ‘One-Click Download’ link to download both files to your computer.
The ‘Archive’ file is a complete copy of your WordPress site. It includes all WordPress core files as well as your images, uploads, themes, plugins, and a backup of your WordPress database.
The ‘Installer’ file is a script that will automate the entire migration process by upacking the archive file containing your website.
Step 2. Create a Database for Your Live WordPress Website
Before you can run the installer or upload the WordPress website from localhost to your hosting server, you need to create a MySQL database for your new live website.
If you have already created a MySQL database, then you can skip this step.
To create a database you need to visit your hosting account’s cPanel dashboard. Then, locate the ‘Databases’ section and click on the ‘MySQL Database Wizard’ icon.
On the next screen, there’s a field to create a new database.
Simply provide a name for your database and click on the ‘Create Database’ button.
cPanel will now create a new database for you.
After that, you need enter a username and password for your new user, and then click the ‘Create User’ button.
Next, you need to add the user you just created to the database.
First, click the ‘All Privileges’ checkbox.
Then, scroll down and click the ‘Make Changes’ button to save your changes.
Your database is now ready to be used with your WordPress site. Make sure to note down the database name, username, and password. You’ll need this information in the next step.
Step 3. Upload Files from Local Server to Live WordPress Website
Now, you need to upload the archive and installer files from your local site to your hosting account.
First, connect to your live site using an FTP client. Once connected, make sure that the root directory of your website is completely empty.
Normally, the root directory is the /home/public_html/ folder.
Some WordPress hosting companies automatically install WordPress when you sign up. If you have WordPress files there, then you need to delete them.
After that, you can upload the archive.zip and installer.php files from Duplicator to your empty root directory.
Step 4. Running The Migration Script
After you have uploaded the migration files, you need to visit the following URL in your browser:
http://example.com/installer.php
Don’t forget to replace ‘example.com’ with your own domain name.
This will launch the Duplicator migration wizard.
The installer will run a few tests and will initialize the script.
Under the Setup section, you will be asked to enter your MySQL host, database name, username, and password.
Your host will likely be localhost. After that, you will enter the details of the database you created in the earlier step.
Then, click on the ‘Validate’ button to make sure the details you entered are correct.
After that, click on the ‘Next’ button to continue.
Duplicator will now import your WordPress database backup from the archive into your new database.
It will also update URLs pointing to local site to your new live site.
You can now click on the ‘Admin Login’ button to enter the WordPress admin area of your live site.
Once you log in to your live site, Duplicator will automatically clean up the installation files.
That’s all, you have successfully moved WordPress from local server to your live site.
Method 2. Manually Transfer WordPress from Local Server to Live Site
In this method, we will show you how to manually move WordPress from local server to your live site. It will come in handy if the first method doesn’t work or you prefer to do it manually.
Step 1. Export Local WordPress Database
The first thing you need to do is export your local WordPress database. We’ll be using phpMyAdmin to do that.
If you are unfamiliar with it, then you might want to take a look at our guide to WordPress database management using phpMyAdmin.
Simply go to http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ and click on your WordPress database. Next, click on the ‘Export’ button from the top menu bar.
In the ‘Export method:’ option, you can choose ‘Quick’ or ‘Custom’. Custom will provide you with more options to export your database.
But, we recommend choosing ‘Quick’, and then click the ‘Go’ button to download your database.
Step 2. Upload WordPress Files to Live Site
Now, we’ll need to move all your website files to the live site.
To get started, go ahead and open your FTP client and connect to your web hosting account.
Once you’re connected to your live site, make sure you upload the files in the right directory. For example, if you want the site to be hosted on ‘yoursite.com’, then you would want to upload all the files in your public_html directory.
Now select your local WordPress files and upload them to your live server.
Step 3. Create a MySQL Database on Your Live Site
While your FTP client is uploading your WordPress files, you can start importing your database to the live server.
Most WordPress hosting providers offer cPanel to manage your hosting account, so we’ll show you how to create a database using cPanel.
First, you need to log in to your cPanel dashboard and click on the ‘MySQL Database Wizard’ icon which can be found in the ‘Databases’ section.
On the next screen, you can create a new database.
You need to provide a name for your database, then click ‘Create Database’.
cPanel will now automatically create a new database for you.
Next, you need enter a username and password for your new user, and then click ‘Create User’.
After that, you need to add the user you just created to the database.
First, check the ‘All Privileges’ checkbox.
Then, scroll down and click ‘Make Changes’ to save your changes.
You’ve successfully created a new database for your live WordPress site.
Step 4: Import WordPress Database on Live Site
The next step in the process is to import your WordPress database.
Go to your cPanel dashboard, scroll down to the ‘Databases’ section and click on ‘phpMyAdmin’.
This will take you to phpMyAdmin where you want to click on the database you just created above. PhpMyAdmin will show your new database with no tables.
Next, click on the ‘Import’ tab in the top menu. On the import page, click on ‘Choose File’ button and then select the database file from your local site you saved in the first step.
After that, click the ‘Go’ button at the bottom of the page. Your database will automatically be imported to phpMyadmin.
Step 5: Change the Site URL
Now, you need to change the site URL in your database, so that it will connect with your live WordPress site.
In phpMyAdmin, look for the wp_options table in your database that you just imported above.
If you changed your database prefix, then instead of wp_options it might be {new_prefix}_options.
Next, click on the ‘Browse’ button next to wp_options. Or, click the link in the sidebar to open up the page that has a list of fields within the wp_options table.
Then, in the options_name column, you need to look for the siteurl option.
Then, click the ‘Edit’ icon.
This brings up a window where you can edit the field.
In the input box for option_value, you’ll see the URL of your local install which will be something like http://localhost/test.
You need to insert your new site URL in this field, for example https://www.wpbeginner.com.
Then, you can save the field by clicking the ‘Go’ button.
Next, you need to follow the same steps as above for the home option name. The wp_options menu can be a few pages long, usually the home option will be on the second page.
Then, update the home URL, so it’s the same as your live site URL.
Step 6: Setup Your Live Site
Now that you’ve imported the database and uploaded your content, it’s time to configure WordPress.
At this time, your site should be showing an ‘Error establishing a database connection‘ error.
To fix this, connect to your website using an FTP client and open up the wp-config.php file.
You’ll be looking for the following lines of code:
// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define( 'DB_NAME', 'database_name_here' );
/** MySQL database username */
define( 'DB_USER', 'username_here' );
/** MySQL database password */
define( 'DB_PASSWORD', 'password_here' );
/** MySQL hostname */
define( 'DB_HOST', 'localhost' );
You will need to provide the database name, username and password you created earlier.
Next, save the wp-config.php file and upload it back to your WordPress hosting server.
Now, when you visit your website, it should be live.
After that, you need to login to your WordPress admin panel and go to Settings » General. Then, without changing anything, scroll to the bottom and click the ‘Save Changes’ button.
This will make sure that your site URL is corrected anywhere else that it needs to be.
Once you’ve done that, go to Settings » Permalinks, then scroll down and click ‘Save Changes’ to ensure that all post links are working fine.
Step 7: Fix Images and Broken Links by Updating Paths
Whenever you’re moving a WordPress site from one domain to another, or from a local server to a live site, you’ll face broken links and missing images.
A simple way to update the URLs is by using the following SQL query.
UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = REPLACE(post_content, 'localhost/test/', 'www.yourlivesite.com/');
Simply go to phpMyAdmin, click on your database, and then click on ‘SQL’ from top menu and add the query above.
Make sure you change it to your own local site and live site URLs, and click the ‘Go’ button.
That’s it, you have now successfully migrated WordPress from your local server to a live site.
Hopefully, now your live website is up and running smoothly. If you notice any errors, then you can check out our guide to common WordPress errors for help troubleshooting.
We hope this article helped you move WordPress from a local server to a live site. You may also want to see our guide on how to create an email newsletter the right way, or see our comparison of the best GoDaddy hosting alternatives.
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david kule says
thank you guys!!
i followed the steps it’s working for me
your save my life
WPBeginner Support says
You’re welcome
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Sunita says
Really Thanks:)…It’s a great tutorial and it’s very helpful to me..
one thing i asked you..can you tell me how to open wp dashboard after this??
WPBeginner Support says
You would want to add /wp-admin to the end of your domain and that should bring you to the login page where you would use the same login information as on your local install.
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Sunita says
Really Thanks:)…It’s a great tutorial and it’s very helpful to me..
WPBeginner Support says
You’re welcome
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gerardo says
HI! i have a live site fully operational but on localhost i make a new site, mostly design. If i migrate it using some pluguin like duplicator, the info from the old site would be deleted?
WPBeginner Support says
It would not remove your local site but if you’re trying to install it where a site is already installed then you would run into overwriting issues.
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Grace Lee says
After moving my website to a live site, will I still be able to edit and make changes to it? Thanks!
WPBeginner Support says
Yes, you would be able to
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Ifeanyi says
Easy to follow guide. Even easier than some videos i have watched on youtube.
WPBeginner Support says
Glad you’ve found our content helpful
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Temidayo Marvel says
Great solution to my Problem.
Thanks
is it safe and easy to use premium themes and plugins on the wampsever while testing and setting up the WordPress site locally, or do I need to deploy my themes and plugins after importing the site to a livehost.
WPBeginner Support says
You would want to check with the support for the theme and plugins you’re wanting to use for if they work on local sites or not.
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Israel says
Thanks for the guide, it really helped!
WPBeginner Support says
You’re welcome
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Jason Bar says
I got lost on the part “connect to your live site using an FTP client.”
That is completely different tutorial where there is no hyperlink to see it.
WPBeginner Support says
We will be sure to work on improving clarity of this in the future, we linked to our guide on FTP at the start of our article, you can find the FTP guide below:
https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-use-ftp-to-upload-files-to-wordpress-for-beginners/
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Jason Bar says
Thank you, I missed it.
Janith says
Method 1 worked fine afrter few refreshes in the step 2. Thanks
WPBeginner Support says
Glad our guide was able to help
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Ashley Davies says
Thanks for the article, I have run into a problem doing method 1. In step 4, when I visit the url at mysite/installer.php, I get an error from duplicator as follows:
‘Archive not found! The ‘Required File’ below should be present in the ‘Extraction Path’. The archive file name must be the exact name of the archive file placed in the extraction path character for character.’
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated
WPBeginner Support says
You would want to check with your hosting provider that the file is located in the correct location in your files.
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STEPHEN OFORI says
Wow… I can believe my eyes. It worked perfectly with the first option. God bless you.
WPBeginner Support says
Glad our guide was helpful
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Temitope Durotoye says
Thank you so much for this… Really helped me a lot.
WPBeginner Support says
You’re welcome, glad our guide was helpful
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Elías Sánchez says
I suffer with this kind of stuff, in fact today i spent a lot of hours doing this migration from local to a server.
Reading and following this helped a lot.
Thanks for sharing!
WPBeginner Support says
You’re welcome, glad our guide could help with this process
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Yusuf Omotoso says
The post is really helpful just like many other posts. Thank you
WPBeginner Support says
You’re welcome
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Luz Manalo-Cruz says
Hi. I’ve successfully migrated from localhost to livesite! Yay! What now do I do with the localhost?
WPBeginner Support says
That would be a personal preference question whether you would like to keep it or remove it.
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Luz Manalo-Cruz says
Hi! Using Method 1, all went well until Step 4 – the migration wizard doesn’t launch when I type in example.com/installer.php (I changed example.com to my domain). Instead I get a Page Not Found. I’ve tried this twice now and I get the same Page Not Found screen on Step 4. Am I missing a step?
WPBeginner Support says
You may want to ensure you placed the file inside the correct folder, you can check with your hosting provider and they should be able to assist.
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Habibul Islam says
Thanks. I have done migration by 1st method.
WPBeginner Support says
Glad our guide could assist
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Milutin says
If someone has problems on Method 1 Step 4 with cPanel host name (error text: No such file or directory), instead of localhost, try mysql. This step always bugs me off nad frustrates me.
Thanks for the great tutorial! Used it multiple times!
WPBeginner Support says
Thanks for sharing what worked for you
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Purushothaman Gempuraj says
Thanks. The first Duplicator based method worked for AWS based AMI Linux server 2 which had external database connection as well.
WPBeginner Support says
Glad our recommendation worked for you
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Meredith Bashert says
I’m still seeing “error establishing a database connection.” I don’t have a domain name set yet (waiting until the site is complete) so I used the domain name that I used to log in to the FTP client as my option value in my wp_options.
WPBeginner Support says
For that error, the domain you set is likely correct but you would want to double-check your username and password for your wp-config file
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Husain says
Dear WpBeginner team,
In case i already have a website running on my live server (Hosting) and i want to upload a new site on it, so do i need to manually delete all the old files ?
Please advise.
WPBeginner Support says
If you are using the manual method from this article you would overwrite the files currently on your hosting rather than deleting them.
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Paul K says
Thank you so much for the instructions. The manual way was way simpler and faster than any plugin I tried.
WPBeginner Support says
Glad our guide could help
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Rehman Ali says
Thanks! Just followed and migrated my site using method 1. Thanks!
WPBeginner Support says
You’re welcome, glad our recommended method was able to assist
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Lia says
Thank you for that great tutorial! It was really help
WPBeginner Support says
You’re welcome, glad our guide was helpful
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JLA says
you forgot to include in method the wp-config.php file to edit database connection
WPBeginner Support says
As the database is being copied from your local environment it means you will not need to edit the wp-config normally
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Oni says
Thank you very much for this update. I really appreciate.
WPBeginner Support says
You’re welcome
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Beth says
I am completely stuck on Method 1 Step 3 – when i try to connect in FileZilla it keeps saying “Could not connect to server”. Please help!
WPBeginner Support says
The most common reason would be your FTP information being incorrect, if you reach out to your hosting provider they should be able to assist.
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Shubham says
After exporting my website from local host i couldn’t import it to another wordpress which is live . This was because of file size limit. Any suggestion in this regard.
WPBeginner Support says
For that error, you would want to take a look at our guide here:
https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-increase-the-maximum-file-upload-size-in-wordpress/
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Peter says
The Mamp guys have now a publish to live site function in the pro version.
WPBeginner Support says
Thanks for sharing that information
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Claudia says
Thank you so much for your tutorial. I built the website on localhost, thanks to your tutorial about it. I have a question about this process of going from local to live though.
I currently have a page online and working. I wantred to change it, so that was the reason I developed the new site on localhost. What I would like to know is if I should do something else before using this tutorial to put the local site live.
Should I delete all data from the current page and then upload the local one? or what should I do.
Thank you so much!
WPBeginner Support says
If you are wanting to replace the current page, then it would be best to create a backup of the live site and then remove it to replace it with the version you are moving from your local installation.
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Claudia says
Thank you very much for your answer!
By the way. I LOVE your page, it has been my go-to page to find reliable answers.
WPBeginner Support says
Glad we can be helpful
Ola Philips says
Thanks for the tutorial, it has helped me a lot , please, after uploading my WordPress file, how do I get to my WordPress dashboard
WPBeginner Support says
You would log into your site to be brought to the admin area. We have a guide for finding your login url here: https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-find-your-wordpress-login-url/
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Sandie says
Thanks for the tutorial. I followed the manual method and the only issue I had was an internal server error on anything but the front page.
This was because on my development server my WordPress was installed at localhost/SAF, so the Rewrite Base and Rewrite Rule in the .htaccess file had to be updated to remove the SAF/. Might be worth updating the instructions to check for this, based on the comments it looks like a couple of others have had a similar issue.
WPBeginner Support says
We’ll certainly look at updating the article to include this information
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liam Donoghue says
I don’t know if i’ve missed something here but i don’t understand the jump in step 3. You’ve said
‘Now you need to upload the archive and installer files from your local site to your hosting account.
First, connect to your live site using an FTP client. Once connected, make sure that the root directory of your website is completely empty.’
How can I connect an FTP to a live site if it isn’t live yet. I have a c panel which has a database made for my site, a copy of my localhost site on my desktop and a filezilla. Am I connecting filezilla to my hosting account? how do I do that? Some clarity on this would be appreciated
WPBeginner Support says
Apologies for the confusion, the methods involved in connecting to your host with FTP can vary depending on the host. If you reach out to your hosting provider they should be able to let you know how to connect filezilla to your root folder
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Fabrice says
Perfect! Thanks a lot, very useful. Worked perfectly.
WPBeginner Support says
You’re welcome, glad our article could help
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Alex Legard says
I’m trying to host the WordPress them that I made from scratch. I followed the instructions in this article except for step 7. Now I’m getting the “Stylesheet is missing” error. Help?
WPBeginner Support says
For a custom theme, you would want to make sure you have a style.css file in the main folder of the theme and ensure that your computer didn’t rename it style.css.txt
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Joseph says
I have a very important question as I never see any specific information about JavaScript in using these methods to upload your site to wordpress. My question is this; if I have javascript files and CSS included in my website files for displaying numbers and text, will they still function properly after I upload my website using this method? I need my javascript files. Please help as this is important to me. I want to use this method after I finish my website but Idk if the javascript files included will work as they should. Thanks in advance.
WPBeginner Support says
Unless the file was hardcoded to use a file on your local computer then Javascript files should still work the same as some themes use Javascript files and they don’t have any issues.
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Joseph says
Thank you, I will try once my site is complete. I appreciate the help.
WPBeginner Support says
Glad we could help
Abdelmadjid ZITANI says
Very helpful, thanks a lot for your blog
WPBeginner Support says
You’re welcome, glad our articles can help
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Margie says
Great tutorial – thank you so much! Got my site up and running (using your manual method) without just a couple small hiccups that were easily solved with a Google search. Overall, I’m very pleased!
WPBeginner Support says
Thank you, glad our guide could help
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TENASU MENSAH says
please i found out that after everything,in the menus and submenus have localhost links like (localhost/test/category instead of http://www.yoursite/category
is there any solutions?
WPBeginner Support says
Did you follow the steps in step 7? You could also recreate the menu links if you wanted.
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Tenasu mensah says
please how i can find my back-ends after i have transferred the site to live server
WPBeginner Support says
For finding your login url, you would want to take a look at our article here: https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-find-your-wordpress-login-url/
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Tenasu mensah says
what should i do if the database you are importing is larger than the required amount given?
WPBeginner Support says
You can increase your max upload limit using the method in the article below or reach out to your hosting provider and they should be able to assist.
https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-increase-the-maximum-file-upload-size-in-wordpress/
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TENASU MENSAH says
I have solved the issue.thanks for your kindest answering back
WPBeginner Support says
You’re welcome
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Johannes says
Thanks a lot for the instructiuons. I had the internal error problem. Luckily I had the htacces file from a previous installation on the server and could just replace the other one.
Everything running perfectly now.
WPBeginner Support says
Thanks for sharing the error you ran into, glad our tutorial could be helpful
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Gimhana Jayasekara says
Awesome work. You helped me so much. I used 2nd method because I prefer manual handling. Works fine.
WPBeginner Support says
Glad our guide could help
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Milutin says
Thanks a lot for your help. ALTHOUGH…
After a lot of effort, I understood the chaos of 2 domains on the job I’ve been given, so now website finally is live. But I cannot complete your tutorial because whatever I click or whatever else I type as URL besides just domain, it gives me error 500… I’ve tried all possible solutions mentioned in your other article, but nothing worked. Would you know the reason of the problem?
It’s my school’s website. It’s in Serbian, but click on any link and you will see the error in English.
Thank you again for this tutorial, it helped me A LOT.
WPBeginner Support says
There are a few possible reasons and solutions for the 500 error, you would want to take a look at our article here: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-fix-the-internal-server-error-in-wordpress/
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Anne-Laure says
Hi I’m having an issue when I try running installer.php I get a 403 Error message. Any ideas what is happenning?
WPBeginner Support says
For that error and how to solve it, you would want to take a look at our article here: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-fix-the-403-forbidden-error-in-wordpress/
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AKG says
Everything went correctly, but i ma not able to login to dashboard of my new copied website
WPBeginner Support says
It would depend on if you’re running into an error or not, for a starting point you would want to take a look at our troubleshooting article here: https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/beginners-guide-to-troubleshooting-wordpress-errors-step-by-step/
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Eddie says
Hi,
Everything was going smoothly. I was on step 4and uploaded my site. It gave me an “Error Establishing A Database Connection”. I realised my dtabase name was slightly diifferent from the one on my site. I went into phpmyadmin on WAMP and created a new database with the correct name and copied the old database data on the new database. Now the wordpress site on my PC says ” We were able to connect to the database server (which means your username and password is okay) but not able to select the xxxxxx database.
I restarted my PC and my WP site is blank. Is there anyway I can salvage this? I still have access to WAMP.
Regards
Eddie
WPBeginner Support says
It could likely be due to how the content was copied, you would want to edit your wp-config file to point to the correct database for your content to be on your site again.
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JOSHUA says
Thanks it worked very well
WPBeginner Support says
Glad our article could help
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Donald says
Things were going smoothly moving form local host to my domain until Step 1 of 4: Deployment
You are migrating site from the PHP 7.2.11 to the PHP 5.6.38.
If this servers PHP version is different to the PHP version of your package was created it might cause problems with proper functioning of your website and/or plugins and themes.
Note: This warning will still show if you choose option #2 and open_basedir is enabled, but should allow the installer to run properly. Please work with your hosting provider or server administrator to set this up correctly.
Wrote to host but wonder if I can ignore this and just go?
WPBeginner Support says
We would recommend reaching out to your hosting provider as some of your plugins/themes may require the newer php and your host should have the ability to help you update the PHP being used for the server.
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