Migrate your LocalWP site to Pressable

Are you using LocalWP?

Many migration plugins can make quick work of pushing your local site to production, but you have options if you’d rather do it yourself. This article details two other ways you can migrate your LocalWP site to Pressable: using SFTP and using SSH.

Migration via SFTP

STEP 1: Open your LocalWP app and Export the site.

Then, click the Export Site button.

Save the file in .zip file format and save it in a location on your computer easy for you to find.

STEP 2: Extract or uncompress the exported zip file.

Once extracted, you will see the following directory structure.

STEP 3: Open the /app directory and you’ll see the following subdirectories.

Open the /public directory and look for /wp-content.
Upload the contents of the /wp-content directory to the Pressable Server (/srv/htdocs/wp-content/) via SFTP.

STEP 4: Import the SQL file inside the /sql directory via phpMyAdmin.

STEP 5: In phpMyAdmin, change the siteurl and home url to the Pressable Staging URL

or use the following tool to generate the SQL query: https://rudrastyh.com/sql-queries-to-change-wordpress-website-domain and use the phpMyAdmin SQL query tool to run it.

Migration via SSH

STEP 1: Click Open site shell

STEP 2: Navigate to wp-content to export the database:

Execute the following command:

• cd wp-content
• wp db export

Then, execute: cd ..
(to go back to the site’s root directory.)

Compress the /wp-content directory in a .zip format. Execute the following command:

• zip -r wp-content.zip wp-content

STEP 3: Copy the compressed file to the Pressable Server. Execute the following command:

• scp wp-content.zip atomic-ssh-url@ssh.atomicsites.net:/srv/htdocs

atomic-ssh-url@ssh.atomicsites.net used above is the SSH URL for the site (more information here).

Note: if you received an error saying “Connection closed by 192.0.96.181 port 22” regenerate the SSH/SFTP password and it should work:

STEP 4: SSH into the Pressable site and then run the following commands:

• Unzip the wp-content:
  • unzip wp-content.zip -d /srv/htdocs
    
• Import the backup database:
  • cd wp-content
  • wp db import nameofthedatabase.sql
    
• Run search-replace to update the database reference URL:
  • wp search-replace <localWPsiteDomain> <PressableStagingSiteURL> –all-tables
    
    example:
    wp search-replace phoebiescupcakery.local phoebiescupcakery.mystagingwebsite.com –all-tables
    
• Clear cache:
  • wp cache flush