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WordPress

Chad Pjontek
Chad Pjontek
13,700 Points
Posted by Chad Pjontek
Chad Pjontek
13,700 Points

How to Migrate a Local WordPress Site to Live Server - Can't get my project mirgated

After following all the steps to migrate my local site to my host provider (Godaddy) I keep getting prompted to install WordPress when I navigate to the url where the files are uploaded to. I've been trying to troubleshoot this for the last 3 days with no success. My local site works without any issues and I'm not really sure what would be causing this to happen. Do I need to install WordPress first or possibly create a WordPress admin account before uploading? I did not see any mention of this and if so how do I go about doing that correctly. Steps I had tried a few things outside of the video instructions including: Using the Search and Replace DB script after uploading both project files and importing the project DB using phpMyAdmin before visiting my site URL. Using the Duplicator plugin on my local site to create and package and install script. Deleting files and re uploading multiple times. Going into the DB to change the Home and Siteurl fields in the wpOptions table.

I've verified that my wp_config.php file has all the correct info and I'm not really sure where to go from here. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated!

6 Answers

Christopher Mell
Christopher Mell
9,152 Points

Try adding 

<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" type="text/css" media="screen" />

to the header.php file. This tells the theme where to find the css file. If you have other css files you can add

@import url( 'point_this_to_stylesheets' );

to the style.css file

Hope this helps

Chad Pjontek
Chad Pjontek
13,700 Points
Chad Pjontek
Chad Pjontek
13,700 Points

Thank you! This fixed it... almost. I still can't get the fonts to display correctly. I added

@import url( 'CSS/flexslider.css' );
@import url( 'CSS/grid.css' );
@import url( 'CSS/normalize.css' );
@import url( 'CSS/webfonts/ss-social.css' );

to the style.css as well as

<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" type="text/css" media="screen" />

to the header.php file inside the head tag. I also noticed that ss-social.css had the following comment in it:

* Upload this file to your web server
* and place this within your <head> tags.
* <link href="webfonts/ss-social.css" rel="stylesheet" />
*/

I tried adding the code above to the header.php head tag with no luck. Anymore suggestions?

Christopher Mell
Christopher Mell
9,152 Points
Christopher Mell
Christopher Mell
9,152 Points

Yes, you should install Wordpress to your host. Then it should work.

Chad Pjontek
Chad Pjontek
13,700 Points
Chad Pjontek
Chad Pjontek
13,700 Points

how exactly should I go about doing this?I have tried installing it after uploading my local files when prompted and the result the creation of new tables within my imported database and no access to my plugins. I can access the theme but there is no connection to uploaded tables therefore can't see my completed site. Should I instead install WordPress then import my database?

Christopher Mell
Christopher Mell
9,152 Points
Christopher Mell
Christopher Mell
9,152 Points

So you don't have Wordpress installed on your GoDaddy host location?

Chad Pjontek
Chad Pjontek
13,700 Points
Chad Pjontek
Chad Pjontek
13,700 Points

Correct. The install folder is empty before I begin uploading the local files. Is this wrong?

Chad Pjontek
Chad Pjontek
13,700 Points
Chad Pjontek
Chad Pjontek
13,700 Points

Ok I was able to finally get some of my site to work but I can't seem to get the styling to work. Here is my site's url: http://chadpjontek.com I've tried uninstalling and re installing several times but it's still not working. I've checked and triple checked the url's to make sure the old ones were replaced with the Search and Replace plugin. Not sure why my styles wouldn't show up.

Christopher Mell
Christopher Mell
9,152 Points

Can you zip the files and email them? I can check the src code if you wish

Chad Pjontek
Chad Pjontek
13,700 Points
Chad Pjontek
Chad Pjontek
13,700 Points

Yes thank you very much. Where should I email them to?

Christopher Mell
Christopher Mell
9,152 Points

tech@badfishdev.com

Jonathan Smith
Jonathan Smith
2,672 Points
Jonathan Smith
Jonathan Smith
2,672 Points

Hi, I'm not sure if you fixed the problem yet. I'm thinking about starting a .com site and plan to migrate to .org later also. I found this site and thought it might be helpful. http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-properly-move-your-blog-from-wordpress-com-to-wordpress-org/

HTH, Jon

Chad Pjontek
Chad Pjontek
13,700 Points
Chad Pjontek
Chad Pjontek
13,700 Points

Yeah I fixed the problem but thank you Jonathan.