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Mark Wardle
5,527 PointsLaunch Wordpress from localhost
Hey there Treehouse team.
I just wanted to let you know that I am highly anticipating the arrival of the "Launching a Worpress site" module. I've been trying to launch a WP site following the instructions of several tutorials on the Internet, but there has been a problem every time. It seems that the plugins make things a little more challenging.
I can't wait. Please don't take your time.
7 Answers
Matt Campbell
9,767 PointsSorry for taking so long getting this sorted for you but I've been flat out busy recently.
OK, here's the link to replace.php for WordPress: http://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/
When I move a site I do this:
- Upload all the FTP I need with replace.php minus wp-config.php & export database to a safe place for import later.
- Run the WordPress install creating the database.
- Drop all the tables in the database and import earlier exported local database.
- Change wp_options url to reflect domain name.
- Run www.yourdomain.com/replace.php. In the search, search for the local address and replace with live address with no forward slash. Then hit back and repeat the search with forward slash at the end of the domain. EG. www.domain.com and www.domain.com/
- Go to admin and resave permalinks.
If you'd like me to break it down further, let me know.
Torbjörn Sjögren
Courses Plus Student 1,621 PointsI use this plugin http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-migrate-db/ Try it!
Matt Campbell
9,767 PointsWhat are you doing when moving the files from your hard drive to your server? Are you moving the database and changing the wp_options table. You'll also need to rewrite the links in the files so it directs to the right file and not back to your hard drive using replace.php.
Mark Wardle
5,527 PointsThis is my process:
I go to MAMP's phpmyadmin, go to my database, choose export, and copy the mysql script it outputs. This first time I tried, I used a text editor to replace-all my localhost url with the launch site's url. The second time I didn't do this, because I used replace.php later on. I then went to my server's phpmyadmin page and ran the exported script as an sql query on the appropriate database.
I FTP the site's files with a modified config.php file for the new DB, DB username, and DB password.
The second time I tried, I uploaded replace.php and ran the script to replace localhost:8888 with my website's root url.
I'm putting the whole thing in a subfolder of my personal site, just so I have something to show the client. I'm using 'www.mysite.com/subfolder' as the replace string for 'localhost:8888'. I'm not sure if that makes a difference at all.
The site seems to be pulling the information from the database just fine, for the most part. It's also rendering the majority of the home page. However, I get the following error messages showing up on the screen:
In the header
Warning: call_user_func_array() [function.call-user-func-array]: First argument is expected to be a valid callback, 'my_register_fields' was given in mysiteroot/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 406
In the footer
Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_footer_scripts() in mysiteroot/wp-content/themes/mahalohealingcenter/footer.php on line 24
Mark Wardle
5,527 PointsBy the way, thanks for the reply. I would love it if you could let me know what I'm doing wrong.
I'm using the following plugins if it makes a difference:
- Advanced Custom Fields
- Custom Post Type UI
- bbPress
Matt Campbell
9,767 PointsSorry I haven't got back to you sooner on this, my system has been out of action since Saturday and writing out lengthy posts on iPad sucks.
Give me 12 - 18 hours and I'll put some info up, I'm UK based and it's 1:15am...time for bed!
Mark Wardle
5,527 PointsTake your time. I appreciate it.
Mark Wardle
5,527 PointsThanks Torbjörn. I just figured out that it's not my database...It's actually the advanced custom fields plugin that is messing things up. I did a fresh install of WP on my live site, and the errors started as soon as I activated the plugin. I am really not sure why...It works fine on my local environment.
Torbjörn Sjögren
Courses Plus Student 1,621 PointsStrange... Try to redownload and reinstall AFC. Never had any problem with AFC. And do try WP Migrate DB. Its a great tool ( and i´m not paid to say it ;-) ). Want to see how it works? Watch the video. http://deliciousbrains.com/wp-migrate-db-pro
Have you tried the AFC forum?
Matt Campbell
9,767 PointsMark Wardle . Popped something in.
Mark Wardle
5,527 PointsIt turns out I had some bad code in my functions.php file. I just deleted it and everything worked fine. I don't remember why it was there in the first place. What I don't understand is why it wasn't affecting my local site, but was on my live site. It could just be that MAMP was suppressing the error from displaying whereas my live server was not.
Thanks for all your help!
Matt Campbell
9,767 PointsMark Wardle, I had something similar stressing me out for over day. A plugin broke after I did something I couldn't for the life of me work out what I'd done. De-bugged for hours and found I'd somehow given an element the same ID as one in the plugin and that was screwing it up. Don't even remember doing it, could have been a bad copy and paste, grabbing the wrong thing. Can be super frustrating.