wordpress migration

  • Dear all,
    I am moving wordpress site from cpanel to local server, i had mysql databases restored, and i copied everything in public_folder from cpanel (include all wordpress files) to a folder, i installed fresh installation of Apache and wordpress, checked wordpress and it was working fine, i deleted the whole contents of the wordpress files, then copied the old site contents (public_folder contents) and edited wp_config added the new mysql user name /pw and made sure the db name is correct, even though, when i open the web server its open the default wordpress page, not the old wordpress site, any clue ?

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  • Not sure what’s going on, but if your site is not huge you could consider creating your local install with the duplicator plugin. This might be quicker than troubleshooting.

    Thread Starter xp2600

    (@xp2600)

    Thanks you for replying, i assume this plugin require the old wordpress hosting being available, i don’t have it anymore, i just have a directory from the old hosting contains the WordPress site(Public_Folder), and a mysql backup
    I restored sqlbackup successfully, but i don’t have an apache virtual host for the old site, i installed wordpress from scratch, and just tried to delete the cpanel default files, then copied the old site on its location (using the same default page Apache using.

    Yes, it would need the old site being available.

    In that case as far as I can see you’ve done everything you need to.

    So you can get a fresh wordpress install working on your localhost?

    Maybe there’s an incompatible plugin in your old site? What happens if you rename the plugin folder?

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