Comments on: Convert A Local WordPress XAMPP Installation Into A Live Site

By: Alan Houser

Alan Houser — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 02:57:17 +0000

Whoops. Everything works, however, the problem I’m having is — every asset on my local server is referenced as ‘localhost’. All assets are showing-up correctly, only because I have the same local server running {Hilarious, actually}.

I changed the two option_name values of ’siteurl’ and ‘home’ to the correct remote url.

I’m assuming EVRYTHING in my database is referencing localhost. Is there a way to fix this?

Thanks!

By: Alan Houser

Alan Houser — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 02:28:39 +0000

Dude! What an amazing tutorial. You’ve made doing custom WP development so much easier. CHEERS!

By: Ted

Ted — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:03:06 +0000

A couple of easy steps and local wordpress installation goes live! Thanks for the tutorial Drew.

By: aar

aar — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:43:46 +0000

Wow… it’s a simple but wonderful tutorial. It’s a nice experience to see my first Wordpress installation problem being solved. Your tutorial works! Thanks a bunch for the tutorial. ^_^

By: joomlafan

joomlafan — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 04:58:33 +0000

OMG. This is a great tutorial. Hats off to the master. You saved my day! Thanks a million!:)

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:40:42 +0000

Hey, just wanted to say thanks for this. I found a link to this on a Yahoo question, and the poster said it was a bit “too complicated” but it was a breeze. Didn’t run into any trouble and it worked exactly as described.

By: Shepherd

Shepherd — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:59:43 +0000

You are the wind beneath my wings. Thanks so much for putting this online!

By: Frank

Frank — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 06:21:03 +0000

Local vs. Live issues in wp-config.php can be resolved easier:
Have the script decide if you’re on localhost:

if ( (0 == strncmp(’localhost:’, $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'], 10)) )
{
// local
define(’DB_NAME’, ’something’);
define(’DB_USER’, ‘here’);
define(’DB_PASSWORD’, ‘here’);
}
else
{ // live
define(’DB_NAME’, ’something else here’);
define(’DB_USER’, ‘here’);
define(’DB_PASSWORD’, ‘here’);
}

(must access by localhost:// then, not 127.0.0.1 naturally)

By: Nathaniel

Nathaniel — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 02:43:55 +0000

Thanks you so much for this tutorial! I followed it and it guided me successfully to start my second site.

By: ross

ross — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:57:22 +0000

Thanks a lot for this simple tutorial, haven’t tried it out yet, but if it works it should save me a huge headache.

Keep up the good work.