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WP Asking for FTP Credentials with XAMPP Localhost
Congratulation Jon, welcome to the WordPress world!
To fix the issue, just add the following line of code in your installed WordPress's wp-config.php file. It's a PHP constant declaration which tells ...
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Local version of a Wordpress site - SSL/HTTPS enforced?
WordPress keeps WP_HOME and WP_SITEURL in DB, this is set during initial installation and usually is the domain of your website, in your case it is a domain with https.
Your visiting site via local ...
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403 Forbidden with gutenberg
In case anybody comes across this, I had the following in my apache config
<Directory "/home/*/Sites">
AllowOverride All FileInfo AuthConfig Limit Indexes
Options MultiViews Indexes ...
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wordpress on localhost lamp doesn't let me install plugins
After installing WordPress 5 on Debian 9 Stretch I updated (remotely on localhost) and was prompted for FTP details.
Running these commands in terminal fixed the problem:
chown -R www-data:www-data /...
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wp_mail() is not working in localhost
If anybody stumbles across this old question:
In my case, the reason was, I gave the site at localhost a name without a top-level domain. e.g. "mysite" (instead of "mysite.com"). ...
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wordpress on localhost lamp doesn't let me install plugins
This is a permissions issue. Here are some steps to fix ownership and r/w permissions in a more secure way:
// check what groups your username belongs to
$ groups
// if your username doesn't belong ...
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An unexpected error occurred. Something may be wrong with WordPress.org or this server’s configuration
For me, the issue was that my localhost software (MAMP, on macOS) was not able to make a secure connection. After enabling WP_DEBUG and checking the log file, I saw the following error (emphasis added ...
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Wordpress redirecting to 127.0.0.1 when accessing the site from a remote device
Maybe your case was different from mine, but I want to share with you how I fixed this issue, hoping will be useful for other people.
In my case the issue was caused by All In One Wordpress Security ...
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Migrating Multisite with WP-Cli and/or Search-Replace-DB
Accepting a little egg on my face. Dumb-dumb error.
The above migration was 100% successful despite the error messages from WP-Cli and Search Replace DB. The reason that my theme appeared broken and ...
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wordpress on localhost lamp doesn't let me install plugins
I usualy use :
sudo chown -R _www:_www /path/to/wordpress/
if security not big issue
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unable to upload image locally
By far the easiest way on a Mac is to right click on "uploads" , select "Get Info", then change the permissions at the bottom of the "Uploads Info" window to include read and write for the appropriate ...
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Loading media on local WordPress using remote database
Somewhere in the core, URLs get absolutely pathed when put into the database.
Why don't you just load all your images from your staging server? Have the staging server hold the files while your ...
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Wordpress not working on localhost
If you've updated the options in the dtabase and are still getting redirected.
You can also define both the WP_SITEURL and WP_HOME in your test wp-config.php
define( 'WP_SITEURL', 'http://example....
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Localhost WordPress not recognizing my online WordPress account
WordPress do not work like Facebook or Twitter. Each WordPress installation is a separate application, it has its own database where users are stored, each installation is independent of one another. ...
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hosting a wordpress site locally to my team
You can create a local server with the installing linux and then you can add your project to that server so that all your team member which are connected with same network are can view the site.
When ...
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Root Sage theme styles are not working!
In Sage 9, the asset pipeline comes through Webpack. You'll need to run yarn from the theme root and then start or production build the site with yarn as well.
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Wordpress redirecting to 127.0.0.1 when accessing the site from a remote device
You can add the config below to wp-config
define('WP_HOME','http://example.com');
define('WP_SITEURL','http://example.com');
Or update the value in database at wp_options table. The settings of url ...
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Redirecting connection from IP to localhost
Trying to change edit the wp-config.php file was a good idea, let's try some extra things to see if they solve the problem. Let's add these lines to the bottom of your functions.php:
update_option( '...
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Other devices on same network unable to access Wordpress localhost setup
Have a look at the answers here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20122583/website-in-wordpress-redirects-to-old-url-after-migration
In particular, I'd check these two:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/...
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Hosting a seperate wordpress project on localhost
There are a bunch of different ways you can approach this.
Modify your existing LAMP installation — Using your existing LAMP stack in /var/www/html (I assume you are on a Mac?) you could use Virtual ...
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DIVI Theme customizer changes not applied on existing pages
Before you try following methods, I request you to clear you browser cache or disable any cache plugin and try again.
There is a functionality in divi which enables it to cache inline CSS and serve it ...
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How do I correctly configure my AMPPS localhost to use subdomains for multisite?
On a Mac this is pretty easy to do, I believe it should be the same on a PC (more or less).
Note: Since Chrome no longer plays with domains ending .dev I tend to set up all my local sites on a ...
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mamp localhost not picking up wp-login
If you want to access your Wordpress site on the new device with a domain, such as wordpress.local instead of localhost:8888/wordpress, you may want to define a vhost configuration for MAMP first and ...
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How do I access a remote database with a local MAMP development install?
What you are trying to do will not work as you local PCs will most likely get different IP addresses from time to time which will mean that you will have to reconfigure your server.
Your solution is ...
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Unable to install and upload theme due to php.ini file
You should upload the theme manually to the server - copy the theme folder to your system folder corresponding to this URL:
http://localhost/lps/wp-content/themes/
After you're done copying the ...
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Row background image not showing in mobile browser served from wamp local host
Relative paths act differently when they are used in a CSS file. The behavior is still the same, and the path is still relative, but to a human it might seem confusing.
When you use a path like this ...
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All includes are pointing at local host
You must have to update your website URLs after migrating your site from live server to local or local to live server.
Go to your phpmyadmin and select your database, then in SQL section paste the ...
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How to transfer from localHost to live but use the already existing database on the server?
Moving your sites
My recommendation would be to use the the duplicator plugin. Far and away the easiest method I've used to back-up, move, and restore sites from local to production or from one host ...
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Wordpress not working on localhost
1) Make sure the wp-config.php doesn't have multisite reference settings such as define("DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE", "somesite.com" );. If it does, delete these settings
2) If you have updated siteurl and ...
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how to open my existing site on mamp
After weeks of trial and error I have the solution. Start Over! Delete Mamp. Re-download it and wordpress and follow this link enter link description here to the letter. It took me several tries but I ...
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