{"id":24595,"date":"2021-07-30T19:45:27","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T00:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matthewjrodgers.com\/?p=24595"},"modified":"2024-12-04T15:44:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T20:44:42","slug":"how-to-create-a-local-test-environment-of-a-wordpress-website-using-the-duplicator-plugin-and-xampp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewjrodgers.com\/?p=24595","title":{"rendered":"How to create a local test environment of a WordPress website using the Duplicator plugin and XAMPP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Step 1: Create your site backup using Duplicator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Follow step two at this<\/a> website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Step 2: Import your WordPress site to your local computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Create a folder for your WordPress site under C:\\xampp\\htdocs. I called mine mywordpresstest.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Step 3: Create a database on your local computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Start MySQL in XAMPP.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Start Apache server in XAMPP.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Click the Admin button for MySQL.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Login to phpMyAdmin.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Click on the Databases tab.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Enter a database name of your choosing and leave the default collation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Click Create.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Click the User account tab.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. Click the “Add user account” link.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. Create a username and password and leave the rest at defaults.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  11. Click Go.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  12. Click on the privileges tab at the top.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  13. At the bottom click “Add user account”<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  14. Create a username and password and leave the rest at defaults.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  15. Under the “Database for user account section” ensure the “Grant all privileges on database” for your database is clicked. Example, “Grant all privileges on database mywordpresstest.”<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  16. Click Go.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Step 4: Start the duplicator migration process<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In your web browser, go to localhost\/mywordpresstest\/installer.php to run the installer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Then follow step 6 here<\/a>. Note: after duplicator is finished it says to log in to your site at the “Test Site” step. Use the same login that you use on your public website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    And that’s it for this post. Thank you for reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Step 1: Create your site backup using Duplicator. Follow step two at this website. Step 2: Import your WordPress site to your local computer. Create a folder for your WordPress site under C:\\xampp\\htdocs. I called mine mywordpresstest. Step 3: Create a database on your local computer. Step 4: Start the duplicator migration process In your… Continue reading How to create a local test environment of a WordPress website using the Duplicator plugin and XAMPP<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5,4],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewjrodgers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewjrodgers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewjrodgers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjrodgers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjrodgers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24595"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjrodgers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24702,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjrodgers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24595\/revisions\/24702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewjrodgers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjrodgers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjrodgers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}