WordPress and MAMP

Wordpress and Mamp
Jim Raffel
CEO ColorMetrix
and
Inspirational Small Business Story Teller
at Jim Raffel.com

A functional WordPress development environment on your local machine.
The Goal

The Method
Install MAMP
Install an empty WordPress blog
Copy and edit your live database
Copy your live wp-content folder
Fix all the little things that are broke

Installing MAMP
http://www.mamp.info/en/index.html
Free is fine probably no need for PRO

Installing WordPress
Recommend svncd /applications/MAMP/htdocsmkdir blogcd blogsvn co http://core.svn.wordpress.org/tags/3.2.1 .
Detailed info here:http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing/Updating_WordPress_with_Subversion

Installing WordPress (cont)
Create a blank MySQL database http://localhost/MAMPUtilize phpMyAdmin – it makes life easier
Navigate to new bloghttp://localhost/blog
Complete WordPress configuration page

Copy and Edit Live Database
mysqldump to copy$ mysqldump –u [database user name] –p[database user’s password] [database name] > [dump file name].sql
Move dump file to local machine and editreplace //blogname.com with //localhost/blog
Create blank MySQL database
Import edited dump file /applications/mamp/Library/bin/mysql -u root -proot[database name] < [edited dump file].sql

Copy and Edit Live wp-content
There is where all your plugins, images and other customizations should be.
I use tarfrom the blog foldertar cvf wp-content.tar wp-content/
Copy that file to local machine
Expand the tar file and replace the local wp-content foldertar xvf wp-content.tar

Fix all the little things
Edit wp-config.phpDatabase name and double check table prefix
Blog should at least now loadhttp://localhost/blog
Themes can be a mess hereActivate a different theme and then reactivate your premium theme
Also, I lost most of my widgets

An Alternative
In the past (but it seems broken at the moment) BackupBuddy almost completely automated this process.
Premium plugin so make sure the feature is working again before paying.
Probably only makes sense if you are doing this frequently

Finding Jim Raffel
http://JimRaffel.com
Twitter: @raffel
jim@jimraffel.com
http://ColorMetrix.com
Twitter @ColorMetrix
raffelj@colormetrix.com
Cell Phone: 414-732-6954

WordPress and MAMP

by Jim Raffel on Sep 22, 2011

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