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Wordpress - restoring backup to testing server?


woolyg

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Hi everyone,

 

I've committed to giving a friend a dig out with his blog to add some functionality - turns out it's a WP install. I've received the MySQL dump, and have restored it to a WP install on my private testing server. The problem is, as soon as I try to bring up the main page, I get a 404 error. Before the obvious 'have you uploaded the index.php page' questions come up, let me say I'm confident that all WP files are uploaded OK.

 

Say the live site is http://www.matesblog.com - I'm trying to restore it to http://www.myprivateserver.net/matesblog

 

Has anybody got any experience in getting a WP install up & running on a different server than it was installed on? if so, could you lend some advice?

 

All info appreciated.

 

WoolyG

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