How to migrate a locally developed wordpress site to live server on ubuntu?

I'm not familiar with Linux, but on Mac OS I am using Filezilla, which is also available for Linux and works just fine. On there you just need to enter your FTP server details and connect, no need for the terminal.

To migrate your WP installation, make sure to add

define('WP_HOME','http://example.com');
define('WP_SITEURL','http://example.com');

with your new domain to your wp-config.php file, in order to change the preset paths (in your case most likely localhost) to the new server. Sometimes it's also necessary to update your sql export, as links to images and other media are still set to localhost in your DB.

Hi Jacob, Thanks for the answer. I do use FileZilla on Windows, and I find it very user friendly. But are you talking about the FileZilla Client or server? I had it in my head that I could only migrate the website using the FileZilla Server, and Client is all that's available for Ubuntu.

Does anyone have any experience using FileZilla on a linux os? Is it very different from running it on Windows?

Where do you want to migrate your website to in the first place? You only need the FZ server if you want to put files onto your local machine from external devices in your network or even outside of it.

If you want to upload your WP website onto a web server or webspace, you use the FZ client to connect to the server and upload the files through it.

Hey Carly, the Digital Ocean website is usually an excellent resource to figure out how to do things on Ubuntu servers (they also have great stuff on other Linux flavors). I recommend this article if you're working from a server via SSH in the command line.

I've done it before myself, so let me know if you run into any trouble and I'll do my best to help out.

Jacob - thanks. I was able to find a good video on installing and using Filezilla on Ubuntu, and I probably wouldn't have continued looking into that if you hadn't said something, so I appreciate your suggestion. Still learning and easily confused at this point!

Nick - really appreciate your answer. That article is exactly the kind of instructions I was trying to find, FileZilla is doing the trick for what I needed right now, but this article and some of the other content on Digital Ocean are definitely going to make me feel like I have a better grasp on my system and how to use it.