how to transfer wordpress site from localhost to another localhost

  • Resolved yassine jamali

    (@losyassino)


    3 years, 10 months ago

    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!

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  • There are different approaches to this; which one to take depends on your preferences/requirements.

    1. You could delete the current live site and upload the new one. This would cause the site to be offline for as long as it takes which could be a major issue depending on the popularity of your site.
    2. You could upload the new site to a new subdirectory, move the old site to another subdirectory and then move the files of the new site from the subdirectory to the root. The downtime of your site would be minimal, if done correctly.
    3. You could upload the new site to a subdirectory on your live server and point the domain to this new directory. This will make the switch instantaneous.
    4. Depending on whether the content stays the same structurally, you could also just upload the new theme and switch themes without changing the underlying system.

    In the first three cases you’ll need to configure the system to use the remote domain (and subdirectory, if applicable), including all possible occurrences of the domain in the database (e. g. if there are absolute URLs in links somewhere), so that you don’t have broken links.

    Thread Starter yassine jamali

    (@losyassino)

    thanq you

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