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Moving WordPress from Live to Localhost

I am attempting to move a live website to a localhost for testing purposes and I cannot get the website to load. When I go to localhost:8888/example my browser loads the page indefinitely and displays only a blank white page.

The steps I've taken to migrate from live to local are from this tutorial

  1. Install free version of MAMP
  2. Import my live database using phpMyAdmin on MAMP
  3. Change all instances of http://www.example.com to http://localhost:8888/example using this tool
  4. Install WordPress in my local website's directory called 'example'
  5. Copy over wp-content and wp-config.php to 'example'

  6. Configure wp-config.php with

    define('DB_NAME', 'myDatabase'); define('DB_USER', 'myUserName'); define('DB_PASSWORD', 'myPassword'); define('DB_HOST', 'localhost:8888');

  7. Navigate to localhost:8888/example

Then, nothing happens.

Here are the results of apache_error.log

[Wed Jul 25 08:08:14 2018] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Wed Jul 25 08:08:14 2018] [notice] Digest: done
[Wed Jul 25 08:08:14 2018] [notice] FastCGI: process manager initialized (pid 14761)
[Wed Jul 25 08:08:14 2018] [notice] Apache/2.2.34 (Unix) mod_wsgi/3.5 Python/2.7.13 PHP/7.2.1 mod_ssl/2.2.34 OpenSSL/1.0.2j DAV/2 mod_fastcgi/2.4.6 mod_perl/2.0.9 Perl/v5.24.0 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Wed Jul 25 08:13:48 2018] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Wed Jul 25 08:13:56 2018] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Wed Jul 25 08:13:56 2018] [notice] Digest: done
[Wed Jul 25 08:13:56 2018] [notice] FastCGI: process manager initialized (pid 15305)
[Wed Jul 25 08:13:56 2018] [notice] Apache/2.2.34 (Unix) mod_wsgi/3.5 Python/2.7.13 PHP/7.2.1 mod_ssl/2.2.34 OpenSSL/1.0.2j DAV/2 mod_fastcgi/2.4.6 mod_perl/2.0.9 Perl/v5.24.0 configured -- resuming normal operations

... and the results of php_error.log

[25-Jul-2018 15:10:59 Europe/London] PHP Notice:  icit_srdb::recursive_unserialize_replace(): The script tried to execute a method or access a property of an incomplete object. Please ensure that the class definition "Requests_Utility_CaseInsensitiveDictionary" of the object you are trying to operate on was loaded _before_ unserialize() gets called or provide an autoloader to load the class definition in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/far/srdb.class.php on line 755
[25-Jul-2018 15:10:59 Europe/London] PHP Notice:  icit_srdb::recursive_unserialize_replace(): The script tried to execute a method or access a property of an incomplete object. Please ensure that the class definition "Requests_Utility_CaseInsensitiveDictionary" of the object you are trying to operate on was loaded _before_ unserialize() gets called or provide an autoloader to load the class definition in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/far/srdb.class.php on line 755
[25-Jul-2018 15:10:59 Europe/London] PHP Notice:  icit_srdb::recursive_unserialize_replace(): The script tried to execute a method or access a property of an incomplete object. Please ensure that the class definition "Requests_Utility_CaseInsensitiveDictionary" of the object you are trying to operate on was loaded _before_ unserialize() gets called or provide an autoloader to load the class definition in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/far/srdb.class.php on line 755
[25-Jul-2018 15:10:59 Europe/London] PHP Notice:  icit_srdb::recursive_unserialize_replace(): The script tried to execute a method or access a property of an incomplete object. Please ensure that the class definition "Requests_Utility_CaseInsensitiveDictionary" of the object you are trying to operate on was loaded _before_ unserialize() gets called or provide an autoloader to load the class definition in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/far/srdb.class.php on line 755
[25-Jul-2018 15:10:59 Europe/London] PHP Notice:  icit_srdb::recursive_unserialize_replace(): The script tried to execute a method or access a property of an incomplete object. Please ensure that the class definition "Requests_Utility_CaseInsensitiveDictionary" of the object you are trying to operate on was loaded _before_ unserialize() gets called or provide an autoloader to load the class definition in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/far/srdb.class.php on line 755
[25-Jul-2018 14:12:35 UTC] PHP Warning:  require_once(/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/example/gd-config.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/example/wp-config.php on line 84
[25-Jul-2018 14:12:35 UTC] PHP Fatal error:  require_once(): Failed opening required '/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/example/gd-config.php' (include_path='.:/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php7.2.1/lib/php') in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/example/wp-config.php on line 84
Solution

  • I solved the problem by following janmyszkier instructions. First, I added gd-config.php to the correct directory. Second, I corrected the browser error SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG by following these instructions.

    UPDATE: This got my site up and running locally but the solution to the SSL error limited to no JavaScript functionality, as it created a non-secure SHA-1 certificate.