Migrating live wordpress to local xampp error

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I tried to follow this tutorial on how to migrate a live wordpress site to localhost.

I was semi-successful in that when I open the site locally, it appears to be the exact replica of live site.

However, I encountered two issues.

1) When I try to log into wordpress dashboard on local host, it takes me back to live-server dashboard

2) When I click anywhere on the local site, it takes me back to the live site.

Any advice would be appreciated as I have been trying to migrate the site for weeks now,

Thanks

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Just use Duplicator. It usually doesn't take me more than a few minutes to create a local clone of a live site and vice versa. – Hans

2 Answers

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Most likely the problem is that your database needs updating to reflect the URL change. Via PHPmyadmin, find your database, go to wp_options and update "siteurl" and "home" to reflect your local URL.

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A alternative to solve the problem is to export the local database with phpmyadmin in an ascii file and with Notepad++ "Search and replace" fix the urls to show the local host.

Amother alternative it whould be, if you have small site, to usr plugin Duplicator , this produce 2 files an install.pho and a zip. You must take the export from web and then erase tle local and rectreate runing http://localhost/mywp/installer.php. This procedure is going to make everything auto.