Test Driving locally: how to move it to a server

Hi,

Use the instructions from the link you attached:

Moving Your Sandbox To Your Theme
When you have made all your changes and are satisfied with the results, it is time to move your sandbox back into your WordPress Theme.

Upload the style.css style sheet file to your WordPress Theme folder on your site, replacing the old file.
Upload all graphics and images to the Theme folder or subfolder.
View your site in your browser. The changes should be immediate.
If you made changes to the source code of any of the three pages, track those down to their specific template file and make the changes in those template files on your site.

Thanks!

I’m not using the Sandbox instructions, though- I have downloaded the XAMPP environment and installed WordPress on my computer.

So I presume it’s the same procedure?

Oh, you wrote that you followed the instructions on your first post. Never mind.

So there are several ways to do this. I will list one :
1.export the db from phpmyadmin.
2 open the sql file in your text editor and do a search and replace for “https://localhost/SITE_DIRECTORY” replace with “https://SITE_URL”.
3. import the sql file to your db on the server.
4 Upload site files to the server directory.
5 edit wp-config.php and put your db name, db user, and db pass.
6 edit. htaccess – delete the SITE_DIRECTORY from the lines (/SITE_DIRECTORY/index.php should be /index.php)

you should now be able to view the site.
Hopes it works for you.