LocalHost Migration Not Connecting

So I’m trying to transfer my wordpress website from my hosting company to my localhost to work on it offline for quicker response times in development. I’m brand new to this, but I followed several guides on how to do it and have re-done it 3 times from scratch to make sure I didn’t make a mistake. I did not make a mistake from what I’ve gathered so please enlighten me.

I exported the mySQL database from phpMyAdmin, and I also backed up/downloaded the public_html folder where my site resides. I am using MAMP Pro on a mac to host my localhost server. I started my server, and followed their guide on where to import my website files to. I created a new database, then imported the exported mySQL database from my current live site. Added the user privileges and linked the database in wp-config.php. When I try to load the site, it gives me the error “ERR_CONNECTION_CLOSED” and goes nowhere. I made sure that I changed the options file in the mySQL database to have the correct site URL and home URL which is https://localhost/**name of site folder**

Still nothing.

I did another install fresh of wordpress using the same method, and minus the importing of the mySQL databse, and the site loads up fine. I can create my wordpress site and it all functions properly. As soon as I add the new files to the fresh install of wordpress and change the mySQL database over to the imported one from my livesite – the same result happens, the site seems broken and parses “ERR_CONNECTION_CLOSED”.

Please help!! It would be way better for my workflow to work on this site offline as response times would be greatly improved. Any advise would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

• This topic was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by James Huff. Reason: moved to Localhost Installs since this is a localhost install