This site requires you to update your browser. Your browsing experience maybe affected by not having the most up to date version.

We've moved the forum!

Please use forum.silverstripe.org for any new questions (announcement).
The forum archive will stick around, but will be read only.

You can also use our Slack channel or StackOverflow to ask for help.
Check out our community overview for more options to contribute.

Installing SilverStripe /

Getting SilverStripe up and running on your computer and on your web server.

Moderators: martimiz, Sean, Ed, biapar, Willr, Ingo, swaiba

Copying a live site to localhost

2 Posts 1524 Views

Christy

Community Member, 68 Posts

25 November 2013 at 1:31pm

I want to copy my live site back to my computer/localhost (windows).

I have another site that is installed successfully on localhost.

I have copied all the SS files to a folder under wamp/www and exported the database.
Then I created a new database and user, and imported the database.
Changed the database settings in _config.php.

After dev/build?flush=1, the website has the correct theme but only the default pages.

Hours/days later, I have chased every 'red herring' I can find.

Is it simply that you can only have one website under wamp/www or can someone please point in the direction the problem is likely to be hiding?

Thank you.

Christy

Community Member, 68 Posts

26 November 2013 at 5:16pm

Solved!

It was the small matter of using a different name for the new database. I found a reference in an old post that referred to this issue.
http://www.silverstripe.org/installing-silverstripe/show/4581?start=0

This begs the question, why did creating a database with a new name cause a problem when shifting the site from the web server to localhost when it didn't when shifting the site from localhost to the web server?

(on the plus side, I know a lot more about identifying errors.)

Return to top