Restore Backup to LocalHost
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My company had a WordPress website that was controlled (hosted and run) by an affiliate of my company. Recently, we changed our website to a non-wordpress site. At my request, the affiliate sent me a copy of the weekly full backup file, put it in a in a public folder on the site so that could download it, which I did. I don’t know if he used a module like backitup to do this.
I want to be able to view the content of my old WP site, so I installed XAMPP, created a new database using myphpadmin, and a fresh local WP install then copied all the old website files from the backup to xampp/htdocs/website_name/. I was able to view the WP dashboard but none of my pages were there. I then imported my old database from the backup files using phpmyadmin into the new database I created. I am still unable to view my pages. Here is where I am stuck.
What do I need to do to view my old website pages within the local install of WordPress? Please forgive my ignorance if I’m asking the question wrong. I have limited knowledge on how all of this works.
Thank you kindly in advance for your help.
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