Setting up my site locally

[jdr999]

Originally Posted by Kief

Where exactly to you run the install from? Mamp Pro? PHP admin? Do you already have the WP installed locally or does it get installed with the zip file (your download)?

All I need is the Duplicater zip file and their install.php in a blank directory with nothing else installed. In my web browser I enter "http://newdomain.com/install.php" and it re-creates everything for me.

And of course if I was installing this locally I'd first create a MAMP Pro host for the site and copy both files to that directory. Then I'd run the install.php from the local hostname. "http://dev.livesite.com/install.php" as an example. And remember not to overwrite any existing db entries you may have with MAMP. If you have 6 local sites in MAMP, you will have 6 local wp databases. You may need to change the db names in the install.php so everything plays nice together..

YMMV, but it's been working out nicely for me.