123mcz

Thank you dearanil for this link. I appreciate your response. Unfortunately it has still left questions unresolved.

Hi aCstudent,

Thanks for answering. Yes I have tried Duplicator, and unfortunately it did not work. Duplicator created a new WordPress account for me that contained plugins and no content.
I have never tried WP Clone, have you gone that route?

123mcz

Thank you Cory! What you have referred me to is very helpful.
123mcz

Hi Cory,

Thanks for responding, I appreciate it.
I attempted using the Duplicator plugin to make the transfer and it unfortunately did not work for me.

I even conducted the transfer 4 alternative ways :
1st way: creating a new database and transferring the XAMPP site there
2nd: overwriting a new Softaculous WordPress install database on the live server with the XAMPP site
3rd & 4th: creating an admin account for the 1st and 2nd variations listed above.

In all 4 scenarios, I had the same end result: a new WordPress account was created which contained plugins and no content.

This series of events led me to conduct a manual FTP upload of my XAMPP site to my server. Unfortunately, this also did not work.
I wrote about my issue in my current post with the title:
“dysfunctional XAMPP site transfer to live server: database malfunction”

Should you have any insight on my peculiar case, I would really appreciate your feedback.

Thanks,

123mcz

Thank you for your advice.
I am going to use it and appreciate it.

Your feedback really me helped So Much! thank you

Thanks again,

I am going to try FTP. It looks much better than changing the php.ini setting (was attempting to go there but hesitating because I never did it before).

Once again, I really appreciate your suggestions.

Hello Again,

Thank you for this great advice. I am applying it using the Duplicator Plugin.

My problem is this:
I excluded some media files during the Duplicator plugin scan because they were too large and I still cannot transfer my package into my cPanel subdirectory because the maximum file size upload in Cpanel is 20MB and my package is 30MB.

Do you have any ideas on what to do? Have you had the same issue?

I also received a warning message during the duplicator plugin scan of my site for the PHP setup. Do you this this is my real problem or do you suggest removing more files?

Your feedback is Very Appreciated.

Yes I can freeze my site and I will try this.
Thank you!!