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Shannon Malloy
Shannon Malloy
911 Points
Posted by Shannon Malloy
Shannon Malloy
911 Points

Moving live WordPress site to Local Errors

Hello,

I'm having an issue with moving my live site to localhost.. I've followed the steps I've seen here on tree house and elsewhere but there must be something I'm missing..

I've downloaded my files from my FTP I've created a database I've exported my live site's database and imported it into the new database I have a folder in htdocs where the files live (xampp is running) I've updated wp-config.php with the database name, user, pass etc.

The result I'm getting is: "This site can’t be reached localhost refused to connect."

This is driving me nuts! Does any one have an idea of what the problem could be?

Your help is appreciated!

Chris Thomas
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Chris Thomas
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 34,909 Points

When does the error occur? When you try to reach www.domain.com/wp-admin? When you attempt to log in? Or somewhere else.

Shannon Malloy
Shannon Malloy
911 Points
Shannon Malloy
Shannon Malloy
911 Points

Hi Chris! Thanks for your response, the error is occuring in both localhost/thefoldername and /wp-admin.

2 Answers

Craig Watson
Craig Watson
27,930 Points

Hi Shannon,

Have you parsed all the code to update your URL's to the match that of the local version?

Craig

Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,118 Points
Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,118 Points

What was your export process? did you install a fresh install of Wordpress locally first? then exported the database into the local folder? then ftp'd the files into the folder?