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WordPress

Posted by chao wu
chao wu
Courses Plus Student 6,327 Points

Download Wordpress project and develop locally

I downloaded a wordpress project from C panel and want to develop locally. the wp-config.php is set to local, but when i open the site locally , i got 404 page not found, it may be caused by url direct, how to fix this?

luangma
luangma
2,279 Points

Not sure, but have you setup your local testing server and database? If so, then the issue might be that permalinks weren't updated.

2 Answers

mikes02
mikes02
Courses Plus Student 16,968 Points

You just need to update a couple of areas to match your directory structure where WordPress is installed:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /mySite/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /mySite/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
mikes02
PLUS
mikes02
Courses Plus Student 16,968 Points
mikes02
mikes02
Courses Plus Student 16,968 Points

Hi Chao,

Aside from the wp-config.php setup you will likely need to modify your local .htacess file so that your RewriteBase and RewriteRule settings are accurate.

chao wu
chao wu
Courses Plus Student 6,327 Points

the folder structure looks like this: localhost/mySite/ how should i modify the .htacess file to match this folder structure