Comments on: Create a local copy of your WordPress blog with WAMPServer

By: Paul Cunningham

Paul Cunningham — Sun, 29 May 2011 21:49:36 +0000

Yeah Jetpack (or some of the plugins it bundles together) needs to connect to some API services. I’m not sure why a WAMP is preventing that or how to fix it at this point.

By: Bob Benedetti

Bob Benedetti — Sun, 29 May 2011 18:22:10 +0000

Thank you for this. Installation went smoothly except that WordPress would only install if I used the wp-config-sample.php as is just changing the name. When I tried the entries you provided I gor an error of an unexpected T-String at line 19. But it works to that is all that matters.
I do however, have one little problem..I have installed Jetpack but am unable to set it up..I get the following error message:
Your website needs to be publicly accessible to use Jetpack: site_inaccessible

Error Details: The Jetpack server was unable to communicate with your site [HTTP 403]. If you are hosted with Go Daddy, they are aware of this issue, and we at WordPress.com are working with them to fix it. If your site is hosted elsewhere, please contact Jetpack Support: http://jetpack.me/support/

Any ideas?

TIA

Bob

By: Sadek

Sadek — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 11:30:02 +0000

Very informative post .
This helped me a lot to test new themes and pluggins.
Thank you again

By: The Best of Blogging Teacher for 2010

The Best of Blogging Teacher for 2010 — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 10:01:19 +0000

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By: Lewis Ogden

Lewis Ogden — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 19:23:13 +0000

Brilliant how-to, thanks very much for taking the time to put this together.
I managed to get my local host site up and running on the first using your article.

Keep up the good work.

Lewis
DomainChateau

By: Paul Cunningham

Paul Cunningham — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:07:04 +0000

Nothing springs to mind. If you deactivate and uninstall that plugin it should get rid of it though.

By: Mark | The Business Mindset

Mark | The Business Mindset — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 11:51:22 +0000

I created a Popular Posts widget on my local copy and now I can’t get rid of it. Even if I drag all the widgets out so there are none left in the sidebar widget sections the Popular Posts widget remains active.

Can you think of why this might be happening in my local copy?

By: What Have You Tested Lately? - Blogging Teacher

What Have You Tested Lately? - Blogging Teacher — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:46:09 +0000

[...] At the very least you want to be sure you are backing up your WordPress blog, but from time to time you should also test your backups to make sure they can be used for a restore. You could install a second blog in a subfolder of your web hosting account for this, or use a local install of WordPress. [...]

By: A Tanone dot Net » Got hacked, reinstall my blog but Windows prevented me to unzip the backup files

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 02:45:47 +0000

[...] also have tested and recovered all the postings from the exported XML files using WAMP Server and everything seems to be [...]

By: drt

drt — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:59:57 +0000

After finished the installation, I also encountered the same problem on file size. The xml file I exported from my blog is ~3.6MB while wordpress file size limit is 2MB. After searching the wordpress forum, I found this posting: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/255018?replies=3
I went to the link listed there, then created an .htaccess file, set the maxsize to 48MB, placed it in my root directory and it works fine. All my files were imported to my test site without any problem.
Thanks for your tutorial, Paul.