hosting my live wordpress site on my imac

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hosting my live wordpress site on my imac

Hi
So we are leaving our remote host $$ and want to run our existing php wordpress - web site off our imac.The imac is more then capable fyi

Here is what we did so fare:

1 full back up image from cpanel on remote host.
2 Filezilla down the zip file that is a "full back up"
3 placed it in Library/WebServer/Documents and unpacked it.Turned on "web share" / made sure php was turned on.
4 redirected my DNS set for the domain to our IP. and waited till it was ready.
Im using OS 10.7.5 MAC FYI and I get nothing but a page

"Index of /
[ICO] Name Last modified Size Description
Apache/2.2.26 (Unix) DAV/2 Server at atlantics-imac.home Port 80"

and if you type in the domain to the address bar via browser; it try to access the router.

Best regards

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.5), i7 , 16 gig mem, 4 tb storage

Posted on May 7, 2014 1:16 PM

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Answer 1

jepping

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May 8, 2014 11:43 AM in response to homehost

Hi,

You need to activate mysql on your local server as well. WordPress requires both the files from your webhost and a mysql serverconnection as well.

This will help:

http://www.djangoapp.com/blog/2011/07/24/installation-of-mysql-server-on-mac-os- x-lion/

Did you forward port 80 to your server, which does have a static IP address right?

Then files served in the Default location of the webserver should start to work.

You might need to go deeper inside /Library/Web/Data/Sites/Default/ that should be your wordpress starting point.

After that you need to edit your wordpress config file to point towards the correct mysql server, now your local iMac Server.

Goodluck

Jeffrey

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Answer 2

May 8, 2014 4:48 PM in response to homehost

my suggestion with all macs, just installMAMP PRO and be done with it. This all in one package will support wordpress, drupal, etc. and give you an interface into php and mysql + a host interface that a child could figure out. Using MAMP also solves a lot of inherent problems with the mac mini server software.

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