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create a local website

applemanit

applemanit

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Hi everyone!
I decided to create my own website and so I bought a personal domain.
Now I just have to fill my domain with my website but before doing this I would like to work to my website from local.
I remeber once I was a teenager I used apache and mysql and I was able to display my website from local.
Thus I used a little program to upload the content of my local website online.
I really don't remeber anything about this process. Maybe someone can fresh up my memory?
 
Maybe you want to use something like MAMP to develop and test locally and then transfer over to the live host site?
 
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To create a local website you don't need anything more than a text editor and a browser ;) Only when you want to use a big framework like for example Wordpress then you'll need a bit more.

But even then I wouldn't install MAMP locally in 2022, just use Docker. Or even easier just do it online.
 
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I use the free version of Local by Flywheel for my Wordpress sites. I used MAMP until about five years ago, but I found Local to be much easier. You just select the "Create a new site" option, and then specify the site name and local directory path, and Local does the rest. You can have multiple sites. I have a copy of the site I built for my wife's business in 2015 (she retired last year, so we took down the live site) as well as a hobby site of my own that I like to tinker with.
 
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What is the question being asked? It seems the local site has been created, and now wants to upload the site to live on the internet.
2 ways.
FTP program, log into your domain's user/html folder and upload the file to your site.
cPanel - log into your cPanel account and use the file manager to upload your files.
 
Ubele said:
I use the free version of Local by Flywheel for my Wordpress sites. I used MAMP until about five years ago, but I found Local to be much easier. You just select the "Create a new site" option, and then specify the site name and local directory path, and Local does the rest. You can have multiple sites. I have a copy of the site I built for my wife's business in 2015 (she retired last year, so we took down the live site) as well as a hobby site of my own that I like to tinker with.
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Wordpress site/development here.

I am thinking of changing from mamp to 'local'.
But I have several questions in my mind.
Can I ask you to tell me by your experience?

Anyone else on flywheel's 'local'?
 
cool11 said:
Wordpress site/development here.

I am thinking of changing from mamp to 'local'.
But I have several questions in my mind.
Can I ask you to tell me by your experience?

Anyone else on flywheel's 'local'?
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I'm happy to answer any questions I can, but I haven't actively used Local since 2021. I used it to build and maintain a website for my wife's business before uploading the site to go live. She closed her business during the pandemic, but she and I each keep a local copy of the website on our Macs for old times' sake, and when we want to show it off to someone. Whenever I get a notification that there's an update to Local, I update it. Sometimes an update to the site's theme (X Theme) or one of the plug-ins will break everything, and I have to recreate the site from a backup, but it's an easy process. I'm not familiar with Docker. For my wife's site, if I were starting from scratch, I'd probably use Shopify rather than Wordpress.
 
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orionquest said:
What is the question being asked? It seems the local site has been created, and now wants to upload the site to live on the internet.
2 ways.
FTP program, log into your domain's user/html folder and upload the file to your site.
cPanel - log into your cPanel account and use the file manager to upload your files.
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Here are a couple of additional ways of uploading local content to server as well:
  • github push & github actions (the way I normally push changes from local>remote)
    • heck GH will host a simple site for free,
    • even comes with SSH and you can attach a custom domain through github pages
  • ssh (the way I normally push changes local>dev (on prem) server
  • docker (devOps) (the way I normally package up an application to hand off to client)
 
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