finished site

[cgarnham]

Once the site I'm building is finished on my MAMP server, how do I get it to the live server? Once there, won't all the links within the site remain relative to my computer and therefore broken?

[ndewan456123]

hey dude
i am really sorry but i will not be able to answer your query as i m also suffering from the same problem i have my my own website, it is complete but i am helpless as i m not able to lauch it due to same problem
bro i insist in case u get any answer please revert back me as soon as possible

[Dirk Einecke]

Hi,

to move your site to the live server you have to transfer the folders/files via ftp to your live server and you have to create a database dump and import the dump in your live database. Don't forget to change the user name and password of your database in your config file of your website.

All links will be okay if you have use links like this:
<a href="/foo/bar.php">foo bar</a>
or
<a href="../../foo/bar.php">foo bar</a>

greetings
Dirk Einecke

[cgarnham]

Perhaps this has been an unfair question. The answer was known to me already: FTP and export/import the database.
The question came up while I was struggling with getting CBSubs plugin, part of Community Builder which is itself part of a Joomla site, to install (via onCube PHP Loader); but that's another thread. I had copied my Joomla site and its database to another laptop I own upon which I had installed an XAMPP system. That process was much the same as FTP'ing.
The site there broke because much of the internal links referenced file locations on my Mac and were, therefore, lost on the Windows machine.
Perhaps this is not a MAMP issue at all. Perhaps it is a Joomla issue. If so, sorry for the interruption.

[animeunleashed]

Hey Dirk.
Is there a step-by-step manual of some sort for putting a website into the live server?

[Dirk Einecke]

Hi,

Is there a step-by-step manual of some sort for putting a website into the live server?

Yes.

1. Copy the files via FTP
2. Make database dump locally
3. Import database dump on your live server

That's all.

Dirk

[nycentral13]

I'm with you amineunleashed - I find Dirk's answer is too trite. As a n00b, I have so many questions regarding each of his "three steps"! Which files do I ftp - the whole WP folder? What files get dumped? Thats the localhost.sql file? Do I have to go in with a text editor on that file and do a find & replace on all the references to http://localhost:8888? Its probably a piece of cake for him, but I don't do this for a living - in fact, if I can get this up and working, I probably will never do it again! My circumstance is that I have a live working Wordpress installation on my site and I have successfully developed a second Wordpress blog on my localhost using MAMP for a nonprofit historical group I am a member of. I now want to take the new site live online under a subdirectory on my online site, so that I can demo it to my friends in the group for comment and tweaking before it gets its own host and url. I should have just started off online in the subdirectory and got that working and skipped the localhost step! Live and learn then forget!

Just seems strange that after all the step by step, detailed explanations with screen shots, of how to get Wordpress running locally using MAMP (im good at following directions!), I can't find the same level of help to migrate my site online.

Can anyone point me to a step by step guide with screenshots?

Thanks!

Eric

Mac OS X / ISP: Bluehost / Wordpress / Cyberduck / BBEdit Lite

[jasonh1234]

Dirk... Please read nycentral13's last post again.
He's 100% right.

You assume people know more than they do and just leave us feeling frustrated and lost.

Part of my daily job is that I instruct people on computers. Most are TOTAL newbs.
Good instructors don't say things like: "Check your network connections"
they say "Click the green button labelled Start in the lower left corner of your screen and look for the option called control panel... etc.

[Dirk Einecke]

Hi,

Dirk... Please read nycentral13's last post again.
He's 100% right.

You assume people know more than they do and just leave us feeling frustrated and lost.

I know, but we can not answer all questions about "How to use Wordpress", "How to use a ftp client" or "How to use a text editor". Sorry.

Dirk

[emkwan]

Its funny as I read down through this post I actually thought I would find the answer. Dirk. Thanks for the basic help but many of us are noObs here and me included. Just a little detail would be very helpful... Please